Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:59:33 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Linux KVM tool for v3.7-rc0 |
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* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 01:07:31PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > Why couldn't this script just be a wrapper around qemu > > It can be. Here is my ususual one: > > #!/bin/sh > > /opt/qemu/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \ > -m 1500 \ > -enable-kvm \ > -drive if=none,file=/home/hch/qemu-root.img,cache=none,id=root \
You are wrong on three counts:
- As I mentioned it in my first mail to you this is not the same as 'vm run': you still have a qemu-root.img while tools/kvm does not ...
'vm run' works without having any disk image around, it just uses the existing distro binaries and boots them, sharing the host file system.
- automatic, transparent host filesystem sharing is another useful feature: I can copy files in/out of the virtual machine using the host filesystem.
- transparent networking is up and running straight away
But yeah, I guess if you ignore enough key tools/kvm/ features then you will eventually be right: it's really just the same as Qemu and has no place in the kernel repo ;-)
Thanks,
Ingo
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