From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Vrabel Subject: Re: [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:35:42 +0000 Message-ID: <56A6088E.2080803@citrix.com> References: <20160121102844.GP1691@citrix.com> <56A0B7E0.20606@citrix.com> <20160121105958.GR1691@citrix.com> <56A2084A.8010803@oracle.com> <20160122105035.GZ1691@citrix.com> <56A310B4.3080808@oracle.com> <20160123145030.GA9393@citrix.com> <393D2BE6-1E09-47BF-B50D-1B1E688A81FD@oracle.com> <20160125112915.GC1691@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aNfQx-0004Vz-Bc for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:35:47 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20160125112915.GC1691@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Wei Liu , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Xen-devel , David Vrabel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 25/01/16 11:29, Wei Liu wrote: > > That goes back to the old topic of how to make VirtIO work on Xen (PV in > particular). It's not easy task by any means. This is a (very) useful thing to solve anyway so why not go down this route? Particularly, since the latest discussion had reached a conclusion about how to do this (white-listing virtio devices that need to use the DMA API, if I remember correctly). David