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On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:54:36PM +0000, Alok Kataria wrote:
> Also note that, the way all these things are implemented for each of the
> hypervisor devices will differ and getting every hv-vendor to agree on a
> common set of things is not very attractive proposition ( atleast, this
> I can say from my past experiences).

virtio is shared by three or four hypervisors depending on how you
count it, with others under development.