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  1. OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) TC
  2. VIRTIO-143

balloon: allow transitional devices

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    • Type: Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Priority: Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Affects Version/s: virtio 1.0 cs02
    • Fix Version/s: virtio 1.0 cs03
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      Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

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      Description

      Virtio 1.0 cs02 doesn't include a modern balloon device. At some
      point we'll likely define an incompatible interface with a
      different ID and different semantics. But for now, it's not a
      big effort to support a transitional balloon device: this has the
      advantage of supporting existing drivers, transparently, as well
      as transports that don't allow mixing virtio 0 and virtio 1
      devices. And balloon is an easy device to test, so it's also
      useful for people to test virtio core handling of transitional
      devices.

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              mstsirkin Michael S. Tsirkin
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              mstsirkin Michael S. Tsirkin
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