Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices?

[Andi Kleen]

On Tuesday 03 April 2007 10:29:06 Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On Monday 02 April 2007 23:12, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > > How would that work in the case where virtualized guests don't have a
> > > visible PCI bus, and the virtual environment doesn't pretend to emulate
> > > a PCI bus?
> > 
> > If they emulated one with the appropiate device 
> > then distribution driver auto probing would just work transparently for
> > them. 
> 
> Still, that would only make sense for virtualized platforms that usually have 
> a PCI bus. Thinking about seeing a PCI device on ,lets say, s390 is strange.

If it gets the job done surely you can tolerate a little strangeness?

-Andi

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