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virtio-pci is the way forward for aarch64 guests: it's faster and less alien to people coming from other architectures. Now that guest support is finally getting there (Fedora 24, CentOS 7.3, Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian testing all support virtio-pci out of the box), we'd like to start using it by default instead of virtio-mmio. Users and applications can already opt-in by explicitly using <address type='pci'/> inside the relevant elements, but that's kind of cumbersome and requires all users and management applications to adapt, which we'd really like to avoid. What we can do instead is use virtio-mmio only if the guest already has at least one virtio-mmio device, and use virtio-pci in all other situations. That means existing virtio-mmio guests will keep using the old addressing scheme, and new guests will automatically be created using virtio-pci instead. Users can still override the default in either direction. Existing tests such as aarch64-aavmf-virtio-mmio and aarch64-virtio-pci-default already cover all possible scenarios, so no additions to the test suites are necessary.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>