Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a passthru device

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:16:21 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:

Basically we need some sort of PCI or PCIe topology mapping for the
devices that can be translated into something we can communicate over
the communication channel. 

Hm.  This is probably a completely stupid idea, but if we need to
start marshalling configuration requests/hints maybe the entire problem
could be solved by opening a netlink socket from hypervisor?  Even make
teamd run on the hypervisor side...