On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 10:30:36 +0200, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 03 April 2007 10:29:06 Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > On Monday 02 April 2007 23:12, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > > > How would that work in the case where virtualized guests don't have a > > > > visible PCI bus, and the virtual environment doesn't pretend to emulate > > > > a PCI bus? > > > > > > If they emulated one with the appropiate device > > > then distribution driver auto probing would just work transparently for > > > them. > > > > Still, that would only make sense for virtualized platforms that usually have > > a PCI bus. Thinking about seeing a PCI device on ,lets say, s390 is strange. > > If it gets the job done surely you can tolerate a little strangeness? On s390, it would be more than strangeness. There's no implementation of PCI at all, someone would have to cook it up - and it wouldn't have any use beyond those special devices. Since there isn't any bus type that is available on *all* architectures, a generic "virtual" bus with very simple probing seems much saner... _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
