Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices?

Jeff Garzik
2007-04-02T22:25:26Z

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> However, one probably wants to think about what the heck one actually
> means with "virtualization" in the absence of a lot of this stuff. PCI
> is probably the closest thing we have to a lowest common denominator for
> device detection.

Sure, but let's look beyond device detection. For instance, it does not
necessarily follow that emulating PCI DMA is the best way to go for
communication with a virtual device, once detected.

Outside of pci_device_id driver matching, is there much value here?

Jeff