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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/lguest_launcher.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/lguest_launcher.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h b/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h index c41fd483af34..697104da91f1 100644 --- a/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h +++ b/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h @@ -10,7 +10,11 @@ * real devices (think of the damage it could do!) we provide virtual devices. * We could emulate a PCI bus with various devices on it, but that is a fairly * complex burden for the Host and suboptimal for the Guest, so we have our own - * "lguest" bus and simple drivers. + * simple lguest bus and we use "virtio" drivers. These drivers need a set of + * routines from us which will actually do the virtual I/O, but they handle all + * the net/block/console stuff themselves. This means that if we want to add + * a new device, we simply need to write a new virtio driver and create support + * for it in the Launcher: this code won't need to change. * * Devices are described by a simplified ID, a status byte, and some "config" * bytes which describe this device's configuration. This is placed by the |