OASIS members and other interested parties,
The OASIS 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 05 / Public Review Draft 05
29 October 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.
Public Review Period:
The public review starts 12 January 2016 at 00:00 UTC and ends 26 January
2016 at 11:59 UTC. This public review draft makes changes to Committee
Specification 03. The changes are tracking in the red-line file at
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/cs03/virtio-v1.0-cs03-diff.html.
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.
URIs:
The prose specification document and related files are available here:
Editable source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd05/tex/
HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd05/virtio-v1.0-csprd05.html
PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd05/virtio-v1.0-csprd05.pdf
Example Driver Listing:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd05/listings/
ZIP distribution files (complete):
For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose