Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:24:35 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/38] KVM: Create kvm-intel.ko module |
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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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