Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/9] Virtio cleanups

[Paul Brook]

> But look at the lguest virtio implement.  We would definitely model a
> VirtIOBus if we implemented something like that in qemu.  VirtIO really
> is designed to be a bus.

When you say "bus" you actually mean point-point connection, right[1]?
I don't see anything in virtio that allows arbitration of multiple devices, or 
any particular need for one as it can be handled by the host bus bindings.

Paul

[1] Technically I suppose a p-t-p connection is a degenerate case of a bus. 
While modern hardware busses (USB, PCIe) are electrically point-point, 
logically they are usually a shared bus topology.