Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:08:49 +0100 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project |
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:01:51PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 03/21/2010 09:17 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > >Adding any new daemon to an existing guest is a deployment and usability > >nightmare. > > > > The logical conclusion of that is that everything should be built into > the kernel. Where a failure brings the system down or worse. Where you > have to bear the memory footprint whether you ever use the functionality > or not. Where to update the functionality you need to deploy a new > kernel (possibly introducing unrelated bugs) and reboot. > > If userspace daemons are such a deployment and usability nightmare, > maybe we should fix that instead.
Which userspace? Deploying *anything* in the guest can be a nightmare, including paravirt drivers if you don't have a natively supported in the OS virtual hardware backoff. Deploying things in the host OTOH is business as usual.
And you're smart enough to know that.
OG.
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