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[Narayan Desai <narayan.desai@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Michael March <mmarch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't follow Solaris that closely but I vaguely remember the Joyent folks
> ported all of KVM to Solaris, right?  Or am I just missing the whole point
> here?

They did, and it is a fairly impressive piece of work. Their focus (as
a hosting provider) was running kvm virtual machines in a illumos
host. That support is completely separate from the guest drivers to
make virtio work for block and network devices. afaict, network device
support is complete, but block device support isn't finished yet. This
means you can't run illumos/solaris as a guest using kvm with virtio.
 -nld