On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 19:38 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 08/19/2009 07:29 PM, Ira W. Snyder wrote: > > > > > >> virtio-$yourhardware or maybe virtio-dma > >> > >> > > How about virtio-phys? > > > > Could work. > > > Arnd and BenH are both looking at PPC systems (similar to mine). Grant > > Likely is looking at talking to an processor core running on an FPGA, > > IIRC. Most of the code can be shared, very little should need to be > > board-specific, I hope. > > > > Excellent. > > >>> That said, I'm not sure how qemu-system-ppc running on x86 could > >>> possibly communicate using virtio-net. This would mean the guest is an > >>> emulated big-endian PPC, while the host is a little-endian x86. I > >>> haven't actually tested this situation, so perhaps I am wrong. > >>> > >>> > >> I'm confused now. You don't actually have any guest, do you, so why > >> would you run qemu at all? > >> > >> > > I do not run qemu. I am just stating a problem with virtio-net that I > > noticed. This is just so someone more knowledgeable can be aware of the > > problem. > > > > > > Ah, it certainly doesn't byteswap. Maybe nobody tried it. Hollis?
I've never tried it. I've only used virtio with matching guest/host architectures. -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
