Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:39:23 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project |
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* Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/22/2010 07:27 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > > It's kinda funny to see people argue that having an external repository is > > not a problem and that it's not a big deal if building something from the > > repository is slightly painful as long as it doesn't require a PhD when we > > have _real world_ experience that it _does_ limit developer base in some > > cases. Whether or not that applies to kvm remains to be seen but I've yet > > to see a convincing argument why it doesn't. > > qemu has non-Linux developers. Not all of their contributions are relevant > to kvm but some are. If we pull qemu into tools/kvm, we lose them.
Qemu had very few developers before KVM made use of it - i know it because i followed the project prior KVM.
So whatever development activitity Qemu has today, it's 99% [WAG] attributable to KVM. It might have non-Linux contributors, but they wouldnt be there if it wasnt for all the Linux contributors ...
Furthermore, those contributors wouldnt have to leave - they could simply use a different Git URI ...
Ingo
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