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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] virtio support for QEMU
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>, Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

This patch series adds support for paravirtual device drivers that use 
virtio.  virtio is a frame work in Linux for abstracting the details of 
virtual IO so that a single device driver (like networking) can be used 
with multiple hypervisors using a small shim layer.  Currently, Linux 
supports a virtio network and a virtio block device and a shim layer for 
lguest.   I have a PCI shim layer for virtio that is suitable for use in 
QEMU.  This is currently in Rusty Russell's virtio tree awaiting the 
Linux merge window to open again.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori