Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:19:05 -0500 | From | Anthony Liguori <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Native Linux KVM tool for 3.1 |
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On 07/24/2011 03:37 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Linus, > > Please consider pulling from > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux.git > kvm-tool-for-linus > > to merge the Native Linux KVM tool to Linux 3.1. > > [ The changes to 9p headers were already merged but show up in the pull > request. ] > > The goal of this tool is to provide a clean, from-scratch, lightweight > KVM host > tool implementation that can boot Linux guest images with no BIOS > dependencies > and with only the minimal amount of legacy device emulation. The primary > focus > of the tool is to Linux but there are already people on working on > supporting > GRUB and other operating systems.
lguest already does this and lives in the kernel.
So purely from a kernel perspective, why have two tools in the tree that do the same thing? Shouldn't you at least unify the userspace with the lguest userspace?
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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