Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices?

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> The actual PCI bus could paravirtualized.  It's just a question of
> whether one reinvents a device discovery mechanism (like XenBus) or
> whether one piggy backs on existing mechanisms.
>
> Furthermore, in the future, I strongly suspect that HVM will become
> much more important for Xen than PV and since that already has a PCI
> bus it's not really that big of a deal. 

Well, obviously it keeps things simple for me to not worry about PCI
support in Xen at this point.  But I was thinking more of lguest; I
think PCI emulation would kill puppies.

    J
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