RE: [Xen-devel] ioemu patch from Ewan Mellor (was: VMXstatusreport Nov. 2)

["Ling, Xiaofeng" <xiaofeng.ling@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Pratt <> wrote:
>> Can we go back to the beginning, please?  Do you actually _want_ any
>> vifs? Surely with VMX domains you are not using vifs at all?
> 
> There was an attempt to unify the configuration file syntax so that
> the same syntax for vifs and vbds would also apply to emulated
> devices. I know this was achieved with vbd's, I'm guess it was with
> vif's too. [This is where the 'ioemu:' prefix in the target specifier
> (2n'd   
> parameter) in a vbd config comes from, allowing a vmx domain to have
> both emulated and paravirtulaized disks/partitions.] 
Yes, that's story of ioemu.Currently,  vif has no ioemu prefix yet.
The error shall caused by not setting nics=0. It is not related with vmx.

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