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Andi Kleen wrote: > Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> writes: > > >> The following patchset adds a driver for Intel's hardware virtualization >> extensions to the x86 architecture. The driver adds a character device >> (/dev/kvm) that exposes the virtualization capabilities to userspace. Using >> this driver, a process can run a virtual machine (a "guest") in a fully >> virtualized PC containing its own virtual hard disks, network adapters, and >> display. >> >> Using this driver, one can start multiple virtual machines on a host. Each >> virtual machine is a process on the host; a virtual cpu is a thread in that >> process. kill(1), nice(1), top(1) work as expected. >> > > Where is the user space for this? Is it free? > I have to go through the motions of creating a sourceforge project for this and uploading it. And yes, it is free. > I suppose you need a device model. Do you use qemu's? > Yes. I can't imagine anyone doing that work from scratch (Xen also uses qemu). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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