Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:15:32 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] CPUID usage for interaction between Hypervisors and Linux. |
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* Anthony Liguori (anthony@codemonkey.ws) wrote: > We've already gone down the road of trying to make standard paravirtual > interfaces (via virtio). No one was sufficiently interested in > collaborating. I don't see why other paravirtualizations are going to > be much different.
The point is to be able to support those interfaces. Presently a Linux guest will test and find out which HV it's running on, and adapt. Another guest will fail to enlighten itself, and perf will suffer...yadda, yadda.
thanks, -chris
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