30-Day Committee Specification Draft Public Review Request for Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Version 1.0

Submitted on Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 23:46
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Submitter's Name: Rusty Russell
TC Name: VIRTIO
TC Email Address: virtio@lists.oasis-open.org
Work Product Title: Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft ##: 01
CSD URI: TBD
Additional Resources : http://
Approval Link:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio/201312/msg00062.html
Abstract:
This document describes the specifications of the "virtio" family of
devices. These devices are found in virtual environments, yet by design they
are
not all that different from physical devices, and this document treats them
as
such. This allows the guest to use standard drivers and discovery mechanisms.

The purpose of virtio and this specification is that virtual environments and
guests should have a straightforward, efficient, standard and extensible
mechanism for virtual devices, rather than boutique per-environment or per-OS
mechanisms.

TC Description: This is the first public review draft, after months of hard
work
by the VIRTIO Technical Committee.
Notification List:
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
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The results of this submission may be viewed at:
http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/TCADMIN