From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] From our "not quite grasping the concept" file From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:00:40 +0000 In-Reply-To: <13426df10711072331w6dd252a8jf65a5c8ac1320d08@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: ef1d4e60-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > So, the decision in the linux virtualization world is to make all > paravirtual devices look like ... drum roll ... PCI devices. That's really tragic. Virtualisation of devices would be such a good opportunity to invent a nice simple interface abstracting away from all the hardware constraints. Sure, all the guest OSs will need new drivers - but using a simple interface means they should be really easy to write.