
VirtIO
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Oct 11, 2026
Untitled Linux Show 274: Not Even Embarrassed
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62:23Jonathan BennettHOST
Um, and that's one way to, to sandbox a Linux kernel.
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62:27Jonathan BennettHOST
And then the other thing that they have, the other solution, um, for hardware is using an inverted VirtIO, and they call this vCage architecture.
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62:40Jonathan BennettHOST
And so inside of the... on the bare metal host, they run the VirtIO driver, which talks to a user space daemon, virtqueues, which then talks to a user-mode Linux install that then has in it a real driver that talks to real hardware.
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63:03Jonathan BennettHOST
And so, you know, it's kind of like Russian nesting dolls, where, you know, there's a Linux kernel.
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63:07Jonathan BennettHOST
Oh, there's a Linux kernel inside of that, and oh, there's a third one inside of there, and that's the one.