On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 02:00:11PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 18 December 2012 13:10, Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > > And what makes virtio so special anyway? e1000 can be used without > > exposing users to internal buses and all kind of nastiness like this. > > Congratulations, you're using an architecture that has a pluggable > discoverable bus implemented by just about all machines using that > architecture. That makes things much easier for you. > > -- PMM
That's on the guest side. Yes, drivers are a problem but they are not qemu problem as such. But on the user/qemu side I dont' yes see why it's so different.