Enabling virtio in qemu-system-arm
Virtio is an abstraction for virtualized devices that enables additional features for guest operating systems, like faster networking and block I/O as well as virtfs for sharing a file system with the host.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Loïc Minier
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Arnd Bergmann
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Arnd Bergmann
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Deferred
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Related branches
Related bugs
Sprints
Whiteboard
Patch fixing a Versatile QEMU boot regression in the v3.8-rc series:
http://
Interesting presentation from ELC 2012 on how to deploy RPROC:
http://
Work Items
Work items:
[arnd-arndb] create working system image for qemu: DONE
[arnd-arndb] build upstream kernel that works with qemu: DONE
[arnd-arndb] build upstream qemu that works with that kernel: DONE
[arnd-arndb] understand PCI space I/O mapping in ARM versatile: DONE
[arnd-arndb] fix qemu and kernel I/O space mapping: DONE
[arnd-arndb] integrate qemu patch: TODO
[arnd-arndb] integrate kernel patch: TODO
