[qemu] virtio drivers implementation details

[qemu] virtio drivers implementation details

[Vasile Catalin-B50542]

  Hi,

I'm trying to develop a custom virtio driver for myself.
Can I ask here virtio driver implementation details?
I've tried the kvm and qemu irc channel, but had no luck.

Re: [qemu] virtio drivers implementation details

[Vasile Catalin-B50542]

I'm trying to make a custom virtio driver that mostly interacts with memory.
I've came upon a presentation which shows which files need to be edited 
on qemu
and kvm in order to add a new virtio driver.
One of the files in qemu is include/hw/pci/pci.h,
but that was an example specific to virtio pci.
virtio-mmio is better mapped on my situation, but I can't seem to find a 
similar header for it.
In fact I can't find anything related to virtio mmio through out the 
header files

Re: [qemu] virtio drivers implementation details

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

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On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 01:26:10PM +0200, Vasile Catalin-B50542 wrote:
> I'm trying to make a custom virtio driver that mostly interacts with memory.
> I've came upon a presentation which shows which files need to be edited on
> qemu
> and kvm in order to add a new virtio driver.
> One of the files in qemu is include/hw/pci/pci.h,
> but that was an example specific to virtio pci.
> virtio-mmio is better mapped on my situation, but I can't seem to find a
> similar header for it.
> In fact I can't find anything related to virtio mmio through out the header
> files

If you are adding a new device type (e.g. printer device) then the code
should not depend on the transport (PCI, MMIO, CCW, etc).

Can you explain what type of device you are trying to implement?

Stefan

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Re: [qemu] virtio drivers implementation details

[Vasile Catalin-B50542]

This is the link to the presentation:
http://www.slideshare.net/zenixls2/052-virtio-introduction-17191942