On 26.06.2010, at 03:17, Balachandar wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to understand the virtio mechanism in linux. I read that > the kick function will notify the host side about the newly published > buffers. I am looking especially at virtio_net.Once a packet is ready > for transmission the kick function is called. From here i where does > it go? Which code contains the backend driver of virtio. Where is the > code in the hypervisor which this kick will go to? Thank you... Device emulation is in qemu. See hw/virtio*.c. Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html