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diff --git a/introduction.tex b/introduction.tex index 7dd06ad..241caee 100644 --- a/introduction.tex +++ b/introduction.tex @@ -1,15 +1,6 @@ \chapter{Introduction} -This document describes the specifications of the “virtio” family of -devices. These are 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. +\input{abstract.tex} Straightforward: Virtio devices use normal bus mechanisms of interrupts and DMA which should be familiar to any device driver |