Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model for vbus_driver objects

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On 08/19/2009 08:36 AM, Gregory Haskins wrote:
If virtio net in guest could be improved instead, everyone would
benefit.
So if I whip up a virtio-net backend for vbus with a PCI compliant
connector, you are happy?

This doesn't improve virtio-net in any way.

I am doing this, and I wish more people would join.  Instead,
you change ABI in a incompatible way.
Only by choice of my particular connector.  The ABI is a function of the
connector design.  So one such model is to terminate the connector in
qemu, and surface the resulting objects as PCI devices.  I choose not to
use this particular design for my connector that I am pushing upstream
because I am of the opinion that I can do better by terminating it in
the guest directly as a PV optimized bus.  However, both connectors can
theoretically coexist peacefully.

virtio already supports this model; see lguest and s390. Transporting virtio over vbus and vbus over something else doesn't gain anything over directly transporting virtio over that something else.

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