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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/38] KVM: Create kvm-intel.ko module
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:36:06PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote:
>
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/kvm.h
> > +++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/kvm.h
>
> please move this from drivers/kvm/ to kernel/kvm/ [or even into a
> toplevel kvm/ directory] - KVM is not a "driver", KVM enhances the core
> Linux kernel with hypervisor functionality.

Actually it's exactly a driver. It's a character driver that exposes
the virtualization features of modern x86 hardware. Pretty similar to
things like the msr or mtrr driver that expose cpu features as character
drivers aswell.

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