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From: Michael Hampicke <mh@××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kvm/libvirt and kernel configuration
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:38:31
Message-Id: 51755964.6020204@hadt.biz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] kvm/libvirt and kernel configuration by Michael Mol
1 Am 22.04.2013 14:31, schrieb Michael Mol:
2 > On 04/22/2013 05:40 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote:
3
4 snip
5
6 > What I'm really looking for, though, is a list of all the devices the
7 > qemu/kvm host can emulate, and the most-specific guest driver. I.e. If I
8 > wanted to make a generic kernel configuration that contained the optimum
9 > drivers for all possible qemu/kvm configurations, what would be the
10 > minimum feature set?
11
12 Sorry I misunderstood you. I know that somewhere deep within some
13 documentation I saw such a list, but I cannot find it now (maybe it was
14 libvirt or in the IBM best practices docs?).
15
16 Here's list of devices that I know of, which kvm can emulate.
17
18 net: e1000, ne2000, rtl8139, pcnet, virtio
19 video: spice/qxl, vmnet (needs guest driver from vmware), cirrus, xen, vga
20 io: virtio, ata_piix, sata ahci
21
22 Do you also care about stuff like sound cards?

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