Re: [Xen-devel] More virtio users

[Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:33:57AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> It is worthwhile, when designing virtio, to keep in mind as many 
> possible users as possible.  In addition to block and net, I see at 
> least the following:
> 
> - vmgl (paravirtualized 3D graphics) 
> [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl/]
> - scsi (for tape, cd writer, etc.)
> - framebuffer (with just one request to share the framebuffer?)
> 
> There are probably more.  Any ideas?

- Fast inter-domain networking, a-la XenSocket.
- PCI (or your favorite HW bus) passthrough, for your favorite oddball
  device (e.g., crypto-accelerators).

Cheers,
Muli


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