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We might as well group all the contrib submissions together and gently dissuade people from using them in production. Update the references in vhost-user to neatly refer to the storage daemon and the various external rust backends. Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org> Message-ID: <20251016150357.876415-12-alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
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VirtIO Devices
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VirtIO devices are paravirtualized devices designed to be efficient to
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emulate and virtualize. Unless you are specifically trying to exercise
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a driver for some particular hardware they are the recommended device
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models to use for virtual machines.
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The `VirtIO specification`_ is an open standard managed by OASIS. It
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describes how a *driver* in a guest operating system interacts with
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the *device* model provided by QEMU. Multiple Operating Systems
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support drivers for VirtIO with Linux perhaps having the widest range
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of device types supported.
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The device implementation can either be provided wholly by QEMU, or in
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concert with the kernel (known as *vhost*). The device implementation
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can also be off-loaded to an external process via :ref:`vhost user
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<vhost_user>`.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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virtio-gpu.rst
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virtio-pmem.rst
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virtio-snd.rst
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vhost-user.rst
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vhost-user-contrib.rst
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.. _VirtIO specification: https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.3/virtio-v1.3.html
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