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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring.
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, e.voevodin@samsung.com, mark.burton@greensocs.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, afaerber@suse.de, fred.konrad@greensocs.com

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 02:00:11PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 18 December 2012 13:10, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > And what makes virtio so special anyway? e1000 can be used without
> > exposing users to internal buses and all kind of nastiness like this.
> 
> Congratulations, you're using an architecture that has a pluggable
> discoverable bus implemented by just about all machines using that
> architecture. That makes things much easier for you.
> 
> -- PMM

That's on the guest side. Yes, drivers are a problem but they are not
qemu problem as such.
But on the user/qemu side I dont' yes see why it's so different.