Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:13:37 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device |
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Anthony Liguori wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: >> If a pci device is capable of dma (or issuing interrupts), it will be >> useless with pv pci. > > Hrm, I think we may be talking about different things. Are you > thinking that the driver I posted allows you to do PCI pass-through > over virtio? That's not what it is. > > The driver I posted is a virtio implementation that uses a PCI > device. This lets you use virtio-blk and virtio-net under KVM. The > alternative to this virtio PCI device would be a virtio transport > built with hypercalls like lguest has. I choose a PCI device because > it ensured that each virtio device showed up like a normal PCI device. > > Am I misunderstanding what you're asking about? >
No, I completely misunderstood the patch. Should review complete patches rather than random hunks.
Sorry for the noise.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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