Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Nov 2011 13:31:32 -0500 | From | Ted Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels |
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On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 11:08:10AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > I'm quite happy with KVM tool and hope they continue working on it. > My only real wish is that they wouldn't copy QEMU so much and would > try bolder things that are fundamentally different from QEMU.
My big wish is that they don't try to merge the KVM tool into the kernel code. It's a separate userspace project, and there's no reason for it to be bundled with kernel code. It just makes the kernel sources larger. The mere fact that qemu-kvm exists means that the KVM interface has to remain backward compatible; it *is* an ABI.
So integrating kvm-tool into the kernel isn't going to work as a free pass to make non-backwards compatible changes to the KVM user/kernel interface. Given that, why bloat the kernel source tree size?
Please, keep the kvm-tool sources as a separate git tree.
- Ted
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