Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:36:39 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Native Linux KVM tool for 3.1 |
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On 07/25/2011 10:27 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Anthony, > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote: > > lguest already does this and lives in the kernel. > > Does Lguest have SMP, usermode networking, and GUI support? >
IIRC, yes, no, and no.
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote: > > 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? > > Are you talking about Documentation/lguest/lguest.c? How would you > suggest we unify our code with that?
It should be easy to have tools/kvm drive lguest - they're both virtio based. All you need to do is provide yet another ops structure to drive the two ABIs.
I guess lguest.c has to remain, as point of lguest was a simple teaching aid for virtualization (which doesn't work very well, as the techniques it uses are obsolete).
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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