Re: [V9fs-developer] [kvm-devel] [RFC] 9p: add KVM/QEMU pci transport

2007-08-29 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
That's also in our plans. There was no virtio support in KVM when I started working in the transport. Thanks, Lucho On 8/29/07, Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that it would be nicer to implement the p9 transport on top of > virtio instead of directly on top of PCI. I th

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] 9p: add KVM/QEMU pci transport

2007-08-29 Thread Anthony Liguori
I think that it would be nicer to implement the p9 transport on top of virtio instead of directly on top of PCI. I think your PCI transport would make a pretty nice start of a PCI virtio transport though. Regards, Anthony Liguori On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:52 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > F

RE: [Lguest] [kvm-devel] [RFC] 9p: add KVM/QEMU pci transport

2007-08-28 Thread Dor Laor
>> >> Nice driver. I'm hoping we can do a virtio driver using a similar >> concept. >> >> > +#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_9P 0x5002 >> > +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_9P 0x000D >> >> Where do these numbers come from? Can we be sure they don't conflict >with >> actual hardware? > >I stole the VENDOR_ID fr

RE: [kvm-devel] [RFC] 9p: add KVM/QEMU pci transport

2007-08-28 Thread Dor Laor
>> > This adds a shared memory transport for a synthetic 9p device for >> > paravirtualized file system support under KVM/QEMU. >> >> Nice driver. I'm hoping we can do a virtio driver using a similar >> concept. >> > >Yes. I'm looking at the patches from Dor now, it should be pretty >straight forw

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] 9p: add KVM/QEMU pci transport

2007-08-28 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On 8/28/07, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > > > This adds a shared memory transport for a synthetic 9p device for > > paravirtualized file system support under KVM/QEMU. > > Nice driver. I'm hoping we can do a virtio driver using a

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] 9p: add KVM/QEMU pci transport

2007-08-28 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
On 8/28/07, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > > > This adds a shared memory transport for a synthetic 9p device for > > paravirtualized file system support under KVM/QEMU. > > Nice driver. I'm hoping we can do a virtio driver using a

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] 9p: add KVM/QEMU pci transport

2007-08-28 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > This adds a shared memory transport for a synthetic 9p device for > paravirtualized file system support under KVM/QEMU. Nice driver. I'm hoping we can do a virtio driver using a similar concept. > +#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_9P 0x5002 > +#de