Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:52:29 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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Hi Avi,
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote: >> It's kinda funny to see people argue that having an external >> repository is not a problem and that it's not a big deal if building >> something from the repository is slightly painful as long as it >> doesn't require a PhD when we have _real world_ experience that it >> _does_ limit developer base in some cases. Whether or not that applies >> to kvm remains to be seen but I've yet to see a convincing argument >> why it doesn't. > > qemu has non-Linux developers. Not all of their contributions are relevant > to kvm but some are. If we pull qemu into tools/kvm, we lose them.
Yeah, you probably would but the hypothesis is that you'd end up with a bigger net developer base for the _Linux_ version. Now you might not think that's important but I certainly do and I think Ingo does as well. ;-)
That said, pulling 400 KLOC of code into the kernel sounds really excessive. Would we need all that if we just do native virtualization and no actual emulation?
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