Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:58:41 +1000 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: linux next: Native Linux KVM tool inclusion request |
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Hi all,
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:08:02 +0300 Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:29:20PM +0300, Sasha Levin wrote: > >> I would like to ask you to include the Native Linux KVM tool in the > >> linux-next tree. > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > What has changed over the last rejection of it? Again, I'm not against > > the tool, but there is no reason to throw it into the kernel tree with > > a completely misleading name. > > Linus didn't reject it but postponed his decision to the next merge > window. We're going to send a pull request for 3.2 so we'd like the > code to be in linux-next. > > As for changes, we've implemented rootfs over 9p with "kvm run" > booting to host filesystem "/bin/sh" by default. It still needs some > work and we hope to enable networking too. We also have patches to use > overlayfs so that the guest is able to use host filesystem in > copy-on-write manner.
I will add this to linux-next tomorrow unless people object by then. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |