On 2012/07/11 14:13, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 02:07:00PM +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have been working on porting NetBSD's virtio drivers to OpenBSD.  I am 
> > not finished yet, but in order to prevent duplicate work, I thought I'd 
> > publish the current state (attached as diff to OpenBSD 5.1). It adds a 
> > virtio block device driver (viod) and a virtio network interface 
> > (if_vioif). It is stable enough to run make -j 2 in /usr/src on a viod 
> > disk.

if you're hacking on things for possibly inclusion, it's a *much* better
idea to do it against -current.

> > Comments are welcome.
> > 
> > BTW: Which device numbers should I choose for viod? Use the first unused 
> > number or just add virtio at the end?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Stefan
> > 
> > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type TEXT/x-diff which had a name of 
> > openbsd-virtio-v1.diff]
> 
> Diff got stripped.
> 
> Can you give us some examples of the use of this driver?

it may possibly speed up i/o when running as a guest under KVM.

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