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

Anthony Liguori
2007-05-22T15:05:18Z

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).
>

Because in a few years, almost everyone will have hardware capable of
doing full virtualization so why bother with pure PV.

> Maybe my view is skewed because I don't care to run windows.
>

It's not just windows. There are a lot of people who want to use
virtualization to run RHEL2 or even RH9. Backporting PV to these
kernels is a huge effort.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -eric
>
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