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Over the next months. The idea was to split this into consumable chunks and start with those things where a lot of people have to agree (code movement, code sharing and shared maintainership). This will certainly evolve depending on patch feedback and merge progress. > > Regarding I/O, I guess it is primarily VIRTIO (VIRTIO_PCI) for these VMs > only? yes, virtio-pci.