Re: [Xen-devel] More virtio users

[Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:33:57AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
> > It is worthwhile, when designing virtio, to keep in mind as many 
> > possible users as possible.  In addition to block and net, I see at 
> > least the following:
> > - vmgl (paravirtualized 3D graphics) 
> > [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl/]
> > - scsi (for tape, cd writer, etc.)
> > - framebuffer (with just one request to share the framebuffer?)
> >
> > There are probably more.  Any ideas?
> >     
> - Fast inter-domain networking, a-la XenSocket.
>   
Yup.

> - PCI (or your favorite HW bus) passthrough, for your favorite oddball
>   device (e.g., crypto-accelerators).
>   
Won't all high-bandwidth traffic be through dma, bypassing virtio?

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