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xhyve, a lightweight OS X virtualization solution
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Support for virtio-serial #65

Open c4milo opened 8 years ago

c4milo commented 8 years ago

This will allow us to communicate with guests from the host, using virtio serial ports, at high speed.

jgonera commented 8 years ago

Could this be used for efficient file sharing?

xez commented 8 years ago

@c4milo any evidence that virtio-serial is significantly faster than the serial ports already there (both are implemented in terms of in / out)?

@jgonera no :(

c4milo commented 8 years ago

@xez I don't have any evidence myself. However, my assumption is that virtio drivers are supposed to use hardware features to accelerate para-virtualized devices more.