linux-kernel - Re: Xen & VMI?

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Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:55:25 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...o.co.il>
To:	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...e.de>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	virtualization <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Xen & VMI?

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Oh, and btw:  What was the reason why kvm paravirtualization doesn't use
> the vmi interface?
>
>   

There actually was proof of concept code to do just that (by Anthony 
Liguori).  For Linux, I feel paravirt_ops is superior as we can extend 
it if something is missing.  If VMI is adopted by non-Linux guests, we 
may support it as a quick way to add paravirt support for those guests.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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