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Date: Thu,  8 Nov 2007 06:55:11 -0600
From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] From our "not quite grasping the concept" file
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On Nov 8, 2007 6:00 AM, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>

The opportunity still exists -- only one driver needs to implement
their numeric hack - 9p.  Then the rest can be based off of that.
Unfortunately, evolution just comes slow and painful.

       -eric