Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC 4/9] Basic guest virtual devices infrastructure

2007-05-14 Thread Carsten Otte
Avi Kivity wrote: > Interesting. We could use a variation this for x86 as well, but I'm not > sure how easy it is to integrate it into closed source OSes (Windows). > The diag instruction could be replaced by a hypercall which would make > the code generic. I think we need to freeze the hyperc

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC 4/9] Basic guest virtual devices infrastructure

2007-05-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Carsten Otte wrote: > From: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This patch adds support for a new bus type that manages paravirtualized > devices. The bus uses the s390 diagnose instruction to query devices, and > match them with the corresponding drivers. > Future enhancements should include hot

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC 4/9] Basic guest virtual devices infrastructure

2007-05-11 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Friday 11 May 2007, Carsten Otte wrote: > This patch adds support for a new bus type that manages paravirtualized > devices. The bus uses the s390 diagnose instruction to query devices, and > match them with the corresponding drivers. It seems that the diagnose instruction is really the only s

[kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC 4/9] Basic guest virtual devices infrastructure

2007-05-11 Thread Carsten Otte
From: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch adds support for a new bus type that manages paravirtualized devices. The bus uses the s390 diagnose instruction to query devices, and match them with the corresponding drivers. Future enhancements should include hotplug and hotremoval of virtual