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

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Date:	Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:05:06 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>
CC:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 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 04/09/2011 01:59 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> Yeah, if that's the goal, skip all the mini-BIOS junk and just rely on 
> a PV kernel in the guest.
>
> I think a mini userspace that assumes that we can change the guest 
> kernel and avoids having a ton of complexity to do things like CMOS 
> emulation would be a really interesting thing to do.
>

Changing the guest kernel is a lot more complicated than writing a full 
BIOS or the legacy devices needed to support it.  See Xen for an example.

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