Pull request

[Soren Hansen]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:45:16AM +0000, Ben Collins wrote:
>>> I haven't looked at this enough, so asking to clarify. Are these
>>> patches needed in the host kernel, or just the guest kernel?
>> Guest kernel only.
> Ok, I was wondering, since it may be better to only have this applied
> in our -virtual kernel, which is specifically geared for running under
> virtual machines anyway (vmware, kvm, qemu, vbox, etc.).

I thought about it, but decided not to make it specific to the -virtual
kernel. The virtio devices presented to the guest by kvm have their own
officially registered PCI id's (Qumranet was nice enough to sponsor
this), so the modules would never get loaded if not running inside of
kvm (or any other virtualisation technology that might use the same
virtio implementation). Enabling the modules in all flavours will just
make testing of all our other iso's inside kvm benefit from the this
massively improved I/O.

-- 
Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Server Team
http://www.ubuntu.com/
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