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Avi Kivity wrote: > 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. Don't even bother creating a project. Just submit the patches back to QEMU. There's been a lot of discussion about this functionality within QEMU. There's no reason to fork QEMU yet again (Xen has given up and is now maintaining a patch queue). In this case, there's no reason why you would even need a patch queue. Regards, Anthony Liguori >> 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). > - 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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