Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:52:18 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/24] VMI i386 Linux virtualization interface proposal |
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>> > and gives hypervisors room to grow while maintaining >> > binary compatibility with already released kernels. >> >> that I buy for binary only hypervisors. But in an open source world I'll >> buy this a LOT less as being relevant. > > Binary compatibility to Linux is pretty important for applications. Even > though Apache is open source, I don't want to recompile it for every new Linux > kernel. Fortunately I don't have to, because glibc abstracts the Linux kernel > interface. Consider VMI in the same role as glibc -- when the hypervisor > changes, VMI maintains compatibility with your pre-existing infrastructure,
VMI = kernel code (AFAIU)
I would rather like a user-space-based compat layer.
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