Linux Virtualization - Jan 2016 - 15-day Public Review for Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Version 1.0 - ends January 26th

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
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/csprd05/virtio-v1.0-csprd05.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 [2] applicable especially [3] 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] OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) TC
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/virtio/

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

[3] 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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Chet Ensign
Director of Standards Development and TC Administration
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
http://www.oasis-open.org

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