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SubjectRe: linux next: Native Linux KVM tool inclusion request
Hi all,

On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:08:02 +0300 Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:29:20PM +0300, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >> I would like to ask you to include the Native Linux KVM tool in the
> >> linux-next tree.
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > What has changed over the last rejection of it?  Again, I'm not against
> > the tool, but there is no reason to throw it into the kernel tree with
> > a completely misleading name.
>
> Linus didn't reject it but postponed his decision to the next merge
> window. We're going to send a pull request for 3.2 so we'd like the
> code to be in linux-next.
>
> As for changes, we've implemented rootfs over 9p with "kvm run"
> booting to host filesystem "/bin/sh" by default. It still needs some
> work and we hope to enable networking too. We also have patches to use
> overlayfs so that the guest is able to use host filesystem in
> copy-on-write manner.

I will add this to linux-next tomorrow unless people object by then.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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