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

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Message-ID: <4DFA1AC2.20605@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:01:22 +0800
From:	Asias He <asias.hejun@...il.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, 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>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool v2

On 06/16/2011 10:28 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 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.
> 

Sure. We are planning to use vhost-net. Just out of time right now, we
are currently working on simple user model network support which allows
plain user to use network without root privilege.

-- 
Best Regards,
Asias He
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