On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 04:48:36PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > One would be exposing a well supported device (like IDE emulation) > and having a magic mode that allowed you to basically promote the > device from IDE emulation to virtio-blk. Likewise, you could do > something like that to promote from the e1000 to virtio-net.
+1 .. this is what VMware does AIUI. Another way might be to invent a "virtio-IDE" device, which at one level looks like ordinary IDE but has non-standard extensions that are helpful for paravirt. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw
