On 24/11/2017 13:40, Pankaj Gupta wrote: > - Suggestion by Paolo & Stefan(previously) to use virtio-blk makes sense if just > want a flush vehicle to send guest commands to host and get reply after asynchronous > execution. There was previous discussion [1] with Rik & Dan on this. > > [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-07/msg08373.html ... in fact, the virtio-blk device _could_ actually accept regular I/O too. That would make it easier to boot from pmem. Is there anything similar in regular hardware? Paolo