linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool v2

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Message-ID: <20110616142859.GA18356@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:28:59 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi124@...il.com>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Asias He <asias.hejun@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool v2

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 06:53:34PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We’re proud to announce the second version of the Native Linux KVM tool! We’re
> now officially aiming for merging to mainline in 3.1.
> 
> Highlights:
> 
> - Experimental GUI support using SDL and VNC
> 
> - SMP support. tools/kvm/ now has a highly scalable, largely lockless driver
>   interface and the individual drivers are using finegrained locks.
> 
> - TAP-based virtio networking

Wanted to ask for a while: would it make sense to use vhost-net?
Or maybe use that exclusively?
Less hypervisor code to support would help the focus.

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MST
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