[Lguest] [RFC] 9p Virtualization Transports

[Eric Van Hensbergen]

On 9/1/07, Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:52 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
> > The lguest and kvm transports are functional, but we are still working out
> > remaining bugs and need to spend some time focusing on performance issues.
> > I wanted to send out this "preview" patch set to the community to solicit
> > ideas on things we can do differently/better.
>
>         Patches look reasonable, but just a heads-up: lguest will be moving to
> virtio, as will kvm.  That means a single implementation for both
> (yay!), but it does complicate your life in the short term 8(
>
>         Dor has published a kvm virtio implementation, and we've already
> discussed a couple of modifications.  I expect that to be nailed in the
> next 2 weeks tho, and lguest will follow.
>

yeah, I've been emailing Dor -- it sounds like he'll have stuff ready
for the 2.6.24 merge window -- that being the case, I'll write a
virtio transport and mothball the PCI and lguest transports.  They
were straightforward to write (a couple hours for the lguest
transport) and the lguest transport was a good learning experience --
so I'm not shedding tears over wasted effort.

            -eric