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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntrae@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices?
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 10:29:06 +0200
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On Monday 02 April 2007 23:12, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > How would that work in the case where virtualized guests don't have a
> > visible PCI bus, and the virtual environment doesn't pretend to emulate
> > a PCI bus?
> 
> If they emulated one with the appropiate device 
> then distribution driver auto probing would just work transparently for
> them. 

Still, that would only make sense for virtualized platforms that usually have 
a PCI bus. Thinking about seeing a PCI device on ,lets say, s390 is strange.

Christian