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

Avi Kivity
2007-05-23T11:55:13Z

Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > I didn't think we were talking about the general case, I thought we
>> > were discussing the PV case.
>> >
>>
>> In case of KVM no one is speaking of pure PV.
>>
>
> Why not? It seems worthwhile to come up with something that can cover
> the whole spectrum instead of having different hypervisors (and
> interfaces).
>

That's the plan. PV I/O and PV mmu are on the roadmap. PV timers and
interrupts should be easily doable too. The far end of the spectrum (PV
with no hardware virtualization extensions) is possible, but no one is
planning to do it AFAIK.

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