Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices?

Andi Kleen
2007-04-03T08:30:52Z

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