linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool

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Message-ID: <4D9F9301.5070204@codemonkey.ws>
Date:	Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:58:09 -0500
From:	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>
To:	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, aarcange@...hat.com,
	mtosatti@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org, joro@...tes.org,
	penberg@...helsinki.fi, asias.hejun@...il.com, gorcunov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool

On 04/08/2011 10:59 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 21:14:06 -0500
> Anthony Liguori<anthony@...emonkey.ws>  wrote:
>
>> If someone was going to seriously go about doing something like this, a
>> better approach would be to start with QEMU and remove anything non-x86
>> and all of the UI/command line/management bits and start there.
>>
>> There's nothing more I'd like to see than a viable alternative to QEMU
>> but ignoring any of the architectural mistakes in QEMU and repeating
>> them in a new project isn't going to get there.
> Supporting only a single architecture sounds like a significant
> architectural mistake...  only x86 deserves clean code?

No, you just have to start somewhere.  Since x86 is probably the 
ugliest, I think it's the best place to start.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -Scott
>

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