Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices?

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-02T22:04:34Z

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> The actual PCI bus could paravirtualized. It's just a question of
> whether one reinvents a device discovery mechanism (like XenBus) or
> whether one piggy backs on existing mechanisms.
>
> Furthermore, in the future, I strongly suspect that HVM will become
> much more important for Xen than PV and since that already has a PCI
> bus it's not really that big of a deal.

Well, obviously it keeps things simple for me to not worry about PCI
support in Xen at this point. But I was thinking more of lguest; I
think PCI emulation would kill puppies.

J