From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37450) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URHca-0001rh-Cb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 03:45:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URHcZ-0005ry-G6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 03:45:08 -0400 Received: from mail-ia0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c02::22c]:60840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URHcZ-0005qm-Bq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 03:45:07 -0400 Received: by mail-ia0-f172.google.com with SMTP id k38so3480852iah.17 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:03:07 -0500 From: Rob Landley In-Reply-To: (from atar4qemu@gmail.com on Tue Mar 26 02:34:50 2013) Message-Id: <1365872587.18069.95@driftwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Target-agnostic virtio? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Artyom Tarasenko Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 03/26/2013 02:34:50 AM, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Rob Landley wrote: > > Can the virtio things (serial, network, block, virtfs) be used on =20 > arbitrary > > targets yet? I.E. Can I use a virtio network device on arm, mips, =20 > powerpc, > > sparc... >=20 > Yes. Moreover, for sparc64 the virtio network is currently the only > way to have a network under Linux guest (and a virtio block is the > only to have a disk under Linux guest). Do you have an example kernel .config and qemu command line showing how =20 to use virtio for those? (Or a working sparc64 image you can point me =20 to?) Thanks, Rob=