# Linux Kernel Module Cheat

### 17.21. Virtio

https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio

Virtio is an interface that guest machines can use to efficiently use resources from host machines.

The types of resources it supports are for disks and networking hardware.

This interface is not like the real interface used by the host to read from real disks and network devices.

Rather, it is a simplified interface, that makes those operations simpler and faster since guest and host work together knowing that this is an emulation use case.