From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-linux-1 Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:00:23 -0600 Message-ID: <47D01517.6000206@codemonkey.ws> References: <47CFB8B4.1070809@qumranet.com> <200803061959.22534.balajirrao@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: Balaji Rao Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200803061959.22534.balajirrao@gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Balaji Rao wrote: >> Excellent, thanks! >> >> Just 1 question: Above is the instruction for guest. How about the >> host? Dont we need to install anything?? >> >> I suppose that qemu in the latest kvm package already supported >> virtio, but I think we need some support from host kernel as well? >> > Hi Jun, > > No, AFAIK we don't need any support from the host kernel. We just need a > virtio backend to be present in qemu, which is there in the latest > kvm-userspace. > Correct. In the future, we may have kernel backends but you should still be able to use the userspace backends. Regards, Anthony Liguori ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/