Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring.

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 02:00:11PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 18 December 2012 13:10, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> > And what makes virtio so special anyway? e1000 can be used without
> > exposing users to internal buses and all kind of nastiness like this.
> 
> Congratulations, you're using an architecture that has a pluggable
> discoverable bus implemented by just about all machines using that
> architecture. That makes things much easier for you.
> 
> -- PMM

That's on the guest side. Yes, drivers are a problem but they are not
qemu problem as such.
But on the user/qemu side I dont' yes see why it's so different.