Creation of the Virtio Netdev

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Linux now supports at least 8 virtualized systems:

  1. Xen
  2. Kvm
  3. VMware ' s VMI
  4. IBM ' s System p
  5. IBM ' s System z
  6. User Mode Linux
  7. Lguest
  8. IBM ' s Legacy iSeries

And the new system is also emerging, each system in the network equipment, block equipment, console and other device drivers in the new feature support and performance optimization of the bottleneck.

To solve these problems, Rusty Russell developed the virtio mechanism, which is an abstract API interface over hypervisor that lets the client know that it is executing in a virtualized environment. In order to cooperate with hypervisor according to Virtio Standard. Thus achieving better performance in guest (especially I/O performance), as defined by Virtio in its paper:

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http://luoye.me/2014/08/05/virtio-device/

Virtio Netdev Creation

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