virtio — archive

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 28/01/2014 15:00, Pawel Moll ha scritto: I had a look at the spec and appendix D. "Class Codes" defines "00h Device was built before Class Code definitions were finalized" and a brief look at Linux kernel shows that it would work. At the same time native KVM tools use "01h Mass storage controller" with subclass/interface "80h 00h Other mass storage controller" which probably makes sense. Here is what QEMU uses: virtio-9p ??? (0x2) virtio-blk storage/SCSI (0x01/0x00) virtio-scsi storage/SCSI (0x01/0x00) virtio-balloon other (0xff) virtio-serial communication/other (0x07/0x80) virtio-net network/Ethernet (0x02/0x00) virtio-rng other (0xff) The choice for virtio-blk is because Microsoft Windows logo program has a rather stupid requirement that devices must use 0x01/0x00. It would probably be just as stupid to put 0x01/00 in the spec, but it's an issue that vendors will face. Perhaps we can specify 0x01 for virtio-blk and 0x07 for virtio-serial, and leave the choice of subclass to the implementation? Paolo