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Not only they are faster

Not only they are faster

Posted Sep 10, 2008 17:05 UTC (Wed) by gwolf (subscriber, #14632)
In reply to: Red Hat acquires Qumranet by drag
Parent article: Red Hat acquires Qumranet

As virtio drivers don't have to interact with real-life hardware, only forward the requests to the hardware interfaces in the host OS, virtio drivers are also much simpler - they will probably be more secure.


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