On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 01:39:32PM +0000, Alexandru Elisei wrote: > Hi, > > CC'ing the kvmtool maintainers and other people that might be interested in this > thread. Sorry for hijacking your patch! > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 05:20:07PM +0000, Rajnesh Kanwal wrote: > > Adding force-pci option to allow forcing virtio > > devices to use pci as the default transport. > > arm is in the same situation, MMIO is the default virtio transport. I was bitten > by that in the past. It also cought other people unaware, and I remember maz > complaining about it on the list. > > So I was thinking about adding a new command line parameter, --virtio-transport, > with the possible values mmio-legacy, mmio, pci-legacy and pci. Then each > architecture can define the default value for the transport. For arm, that would > be pci. > > What do you guys think? That sounds good to me. Then we can remove --force-pci altogether and maybe have PCI as the default for everybody? Should make the tool a little easier to use across architectures. Will
