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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: Event channels in KVM?
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:31:57 -0500
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Matt Anger wrote:
> Does KVM have any interface similar to event-channels like Xen does?
> Basically a way to send notifications between the host and guest.
>   

virtio is the abstraction we use.

But virtio is based on the standard hardware interfaces of the PC--PIO, 
MMIO, and interrupts.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Thanks,
> -Matt
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