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From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
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On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 11:18 +0000, Stanacar, StefanX wrote:

> That sounds really cool, nice job! 
> I might be wrong but doesn't that require virtio support in the target
> kernel (which is something we can't expect to have)?

Yes...although you could do the same over TCP, it'd just require more
gymnastics on the host and guest side.   The driver is just 12k here on
this RHEL6 box; I have it built in to the kernel for my OE target so I
don't know how large it is offhand there.