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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices?
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:12:39 +0200
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> How would that work in the case where virtualized guests don't have a
> visible PCI bus, and the virtual environment doesn't pretend to emulate
> a PCI bus?

If they emulated one with the appropiate device 
then distribution driver auto probing would just work transparently for them.

-Andi