From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933115AbXDCIaw (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 04:30:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933192AbXDCIav (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 04:30:51 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36191 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933115AbXDCIav (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 04:30:51 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Christian Borntraeger Subject: Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices? Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 10:30:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge , "H. Peter Anvin" , Virtualization Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , mathiasen@gmail.com References: <4611652F.700@zytor.com> <200704022312.39195.ak@suse.de> <200704031029.06819.borntrae@de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <200704031029.06819.borntrae@de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704031030.36473.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 03 April 2007 10:29:06 Christian Borntraeger wrote: > On Monday 02 April 2007 23:12, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > 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. > > Still, that would only make sense for virtualized platforms that usually have > a PCI bus. Thinking about seeing a PCI device on ,lets say, s390 is strange. If it gets the job done surely you can tolerate a little strangeness? -Andi