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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/21] QEMU Object Model
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 07/28/2011 02:36 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/27/2011 10:01 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's milkymist, not GoldFish.
>>
>> Oh, Goldfish is fake. It's not real hardware.
>>
>> The enumerator device is not a real device. It's weird because it's
>> imaginary and was designed specifically within QEMU.
>>
>> It's not a good example for discussing modelling.
>
> There are plenty of PV interfaces implemented by QEMU. Would you say the
> same of virtio?

Virtio was designed to look like real hardware.

I would say that trying to fit XenStore into QOM would not be a good 
exercise.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Paolo
>