Re: [PATCH v2] Enhance kvmconfig

Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-09T12:17:01Z

On 24/04/2016 18:30, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> > +CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO=y
>> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO_INPUT=y
>> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO=y
>> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO_CMDLINE_DEVICES=y
>> > --
> Frankly, I'm still not sure we want to do this. Apparently, virtio is
> the way to go on kvm but it is not absolutely necessary to get a booting
> guest.
>
> Paolo, what do you think?

I think adding virtio storage is a good idea for "make kvmconfig".

virtio-input is not _that_ useful on x86, but it's getting more useful
(recent QEMU can pass evdev events directly to a VM via virtio-input).
I'm ambivalent about it.

VIRTIO_MMIO should only be added by some ARM thing though.

Paolo