linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: move vmware to hypervisor

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Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:50:35 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, akataria@...are.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: move vmware to hypervisor

Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
>> I dont really like this one. KVM is a hypervisor too, and so is 
>> Xen and lguest. VMware is one of the many types of a 
>> hypervisors.
> 
> Can we use common hypervisor for Xen, lguest, vmware, etc.
> And Xen, lguest, vmware will be the sub-options.

Obviously.  We spent a lot of time breaking up the cpu stuff into common
and vendor-specific portions, we shouldn't go backwards w.r.t. hypervisors.
	
	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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