From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] AlacrityVM guest drivers Reply-To: Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:57:36 +0300 Message-ID: <4A7AE150.7040009@redhat.com> References: <20090803171030.17268.26962.stgit@dev.haskins.net> <20090806081955.GA9752@redhat.com> <4A7A8F7B0200005A00051B84@sinclair.provo.novell.com> <4A7AD29E.50800@redhat.com> <4A7A9C6B0200005A00051BB9@sinclair.provo.novell.com> <4A7ADE23.5010208@redhat.com> <4A7AA63A0200005A00051BE2@sinclair.provo.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alacrityvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Gregory Haskins Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A7AA63A0200005A00051BE2@sinclair.provo.novell.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 08/06/2009 04:45 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote: > >> (though still rooting for virtio). >> > > Heh...not to belabor the point to death, but virtio is orthogonal (you keep forgetting that ;). > > Its really the vbus device-model vs the qemu device-model (and possibly vs the "in-kernel pci emulation" model that I believe Michael is working on). > > You can run virtio on any of those three. > It's not orthogonal. virtio is one set of ABI+guest drivers+host support to get networking on kvm guests. AlacrityVM's vbus-based drivers are another set of ABI+guest drivers+host support to get networking on kvm guests. That makes them competitors (two different ways to do one thing), not orthogonal. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function