Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices?

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Tue Apr 03 2007 - 04:29:26 EST


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
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