Re: [Qemu-devel] Target-agnostic virtio?

[Richard Henderson]

On 2013-03-25 17:52, Rob Landley wrote:
> Can the virtio things (serial, network, block, virtfs) be used on arbitrary
> targets yet? I.E. Can I use a virtio network device on arm, mips, powerpc,
> sparc... (And can the virtio serial console hook up to qemu's stdin/stdout in
> -nographic mode yet?)
>
> I asked this in 2010 and the answer at the time was "no". Still not entirely
> sure why.

Yes, so long as the machine description has a supported bus, e.g. pci.
It took almost nothing to hook up virtio-pci to alpha.


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