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Virtio

Paravirtualized drivers for kvm/Linux

Virtio was chosen to be the main platform for IO virtualization in KVM
The idea behind it is to have a common framework for hypervisors for IO virtualization
The specification can be found here: https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.2/virtio-v1.2.html