[libvirt] VIRTIO v1.0 15-day public review - ends July 2nd

Wed Jun 17 17:33:36 UTC 2015

OASIS members and other interested parties,

The Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) TC members [1] have produced an updated
Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for
15-day public review:

Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 04 / Public Review Draft 04
28 May 2015

Specification overview:

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.

Among multiple other enhancements and corrections, the Virtio specification
now includes support for the memory balloon device for managing guest
memory. This puts Virtio 1.0 at feature parity with Virtio 0.9.

This is the first public review of VIRTIO since it was approved as
Committee Specification 02 (CS02). The files
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd04/virtio-v1.0-csprd04-diff.html
and
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd04/virtio-v1.0-csprd04-diff.pdf
include all changes since CS02 highlighted.

TC Description:

The goal of the OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) TC is to simplify virtual
devices, making them more extensible and more recognizable.

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

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 18 June 2015 at 00:00 UTC and ends 02 July 2015 at
23:59 UTC.

This is the first public review of VIRTIO since it was approved as
Committee Specification 02 (CS02). The files
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd04/virtio-v1.0-csprd04-diff.html
and
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd04/virtio-v1.0-csprd04-diff.pdf
include all changes since CS02 highlighted [2]. This 15-day review is
limited in scope to these changes.

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from
potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for
the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical
work.

Reviewers may provide comments directly from the comment-tag version of
document. The file

http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd04/virtio-v1.0-csprd04-COMMENT-TAGS.html

contains the HTML version of the draft with a “[comment?]” link next to
each section heading. Clicking on this link will launch your email
application and begin a message to virtio-comment at lists.oasis-open.org with
the specific section number and title in the subject line. Simply enter
your comment and click send.

Note that you must be subscribed to the comment mailing list before sending
feedback. Instructions on how to subscribe can be found at
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=virtio.

URIs:
The prose specification document and related files are available here:

Editable source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd04/tex/

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd04/virtio-v1.0-csprd04.html

HTML with inline tags for direct commenting:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd04/virtio-v1.0-csprd04-COMMENT-TAGS.html

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd04/virtio-v1.0-csprd04.pdf

ZIP distribution files (complete):

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose
specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can
download the ZIP file here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd04/virtio-v1.0-csprd04.zip

Additional information about this specification and the VIRTIO TC may be
found on the TC's public home page located at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/virtio/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be accessed via the button labeled
"Send A Comment" at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=virtio

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of
this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License,
which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at
least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public
review of 'Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Version 1.0', we call your attention
to the OASIS IPR Policy [3] applicable especially [4] to the work of this
technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this
document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and
availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights
that read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites any persons who
know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the
implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be
posted to the notice page for this TC's work.

========== Additional references:

[1] Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) TC
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/virtio/

[2] Redlined DIFF file:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd04/virtio-v1.0-csprd04-diff.pdf

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/virtio/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#licensing_req
Non-Assertion Mode

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OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
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