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SubjectRe: [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver
On 04/06/2010 01:58 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
>> Also please explain the applicability of this driver. Will xen use it?
>> kvm? Out-of-tree code?
>>
> The driver is expected to be used on VMware platform - mainly ESX.
> Originally we tried to converge with KVM and use virtio and
> stock virtio_balloon driver but Avi mentioned that our code emulating
> virtqueue was more than balloon code itself and thus using virtio did
> not make nuch sense.
>

Yeah. If we wanted commonality, we could make a balloon_core.c that
contains the common code. IMO that's premature, but perhaps there's
some meat there (like suspend/resume support and /proc//sys interface).

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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