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From: Cam Macdonell <cam@cs.ualberta.ca>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Inter-VM shared memory PCI device
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:04:54AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Again, I recommend Rusty's virtio-pci for inspiration.
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> Not just inspiration, how about building on virtio-pci?

Virtio was discussed at good length last year on a previous version.
I did implement a virtio version that extended virtio to use memory
regions for importing host memory into a guest.

http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg25784.html

However, Anthony thought the memory regions broke the DMA engine model
of virtio too much and so I went back to PCI.

Cam

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