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Re: [virtio] [PATCH 1/4] abstract: address lnovich comment

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Rusty Russell <>
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2014-02-07T01:29:56+00:00
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Re: [virtio] [PATCH 1/4] abstract: address lnovich comment
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <> writes:
>  suggested rewording abstract,
> making the following points:
>
> 1. they in "they are not all that different" is ambigious. One
>    might think it means
>    virtual environments (which one might take to mean all
>    virtual devices) are like physical devices.
> 2. from what point of view is virtio like a physical device?
>    it's very different from host POV
> 3. "the guest" appears out of nowhere. It's the guest that runs
>    in the vm of course.
> 4. "not all that different" means similar so there's not need to
>    be verbose
> 5. This in "This allows" is ambigious: what allows guest to use
>    standard drivers?
>    It's the device being like a physical one - not how this
>    document is written.
>
> Address this comment without making strong claims.

Oops, I missed these, and replied as well.

Please put your patches (either appended or as one big patch) into
feedback/5.txt for review next meeting.

I'm happy for you to overwrite or incorporate mine as you choose.

Thanks!
Rusty.
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