From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: More virtio users Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:09:19 +0300 Message-ID: <466BB1AF.1000601@qumranet.com> References: <466BA965.6050208@qumranet.com> <20070610080602.GD3738@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel , Rusty Russell , xen-devel , virtualization To: Muli Ben-Yehuda Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070610080602.GD3738@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:33:57AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> It is worthwhile, when designing virtio, to keep in mind as many >> possible users as possible. In addition to block and net, I see at >> least the following: >> >> - vmgl (paravirtualized 3D graphics) >> [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl/] >> - scsi (for tape, cd writer, etc.) >> - framebuffer (with just one request to share the framebuffer?) >> >> There are probably more. Any ideas? >> > > - Fast inter-domain networking, a-la XenSocket. > Yup. > - PCI (or your favorite HW bus) passthrough, for your favorite oddball > device (e.g., crypto-accelerators). > Won't all high-bandwidth traffic be through dma, bypassing virtio? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function