Anthony Liguori<address@hidden> writes:
And yes, I can't help but think of Dave Millers comments long ago that
any PV transport is eventually going to reinvent TCP, poorly.
No doubt then, no doubt now. But if I remember correctly, we didn't
create virtio-serial because we thought we could do better than TCP/IP.
We thought we need a zero-config communication channel that doesn't
interfere in any way with the guest's networking. Since the network
folks were unwilling to give us one ("use TCP already"), we looked for
another bare metal thing to imitate, and chose serial lines.
Now, comparing serial lines to TCP/IP makes no sense. Different layers.
Layering a real network protocol on top of serial line is possible; SLIP
exists. But as long as we insist on "don't interfere in any way with
the guest's networking", we can't use TCP, and thus are doomed to
reinvent it, poorly.