Re: [PATCH/RFC 7/9] Virtual network guest device driver

Avi Kivity
2007-05-23T12:16:50Z

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:00:42AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
>
>> On 5/22/07, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm not opposed to supporting emulation environments, just don't make
>>> a large pile of crap the default like Xen -- and having to integrate
>>> PCI probing code in my guest domains is a large pile of crap.
>>>
>> Exactly. I'm about to start a pretty large project here, using xen or
>> kvm, not sure. One thing for sure, we are NOT going to use anything
>> but PV devices. Full emulation is nice, but it's just plain silly if
>> you don't have to do it. And we don't have to do it. So let's get the
>> PV devices right, not try to shoehorn them into some framework like
>> PCI.
>>
>
> If you don't care about full virtualization kvm is the wrong project for
> you. You might want to take a look at lguest.
>
>

This is incorrect. While kvm started out as a full virtualization
project, it will expand with I/O PV and core PV. Eventually most of the
paravirt_ops interface will have a kvm implementation.

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