linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Native Linux KVM tool for 3.1

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Message-ID: <4E2CC489.1090509@codemonkey.ws>
Date:	Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:19:05 -0500
From:	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
CC:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu, avi@...hat.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, gorcunov@...il.com, levinsasha928@...il.com,
	asias.hejun@...il.com, prasadjoshi124@...il.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Native Linux KVM tool for 3.1

On 07/24/2011 03:37 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> Please consider pulling from
>
> ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux.git
> kvm-tool-for-linus
>
> to merge the Native Linux KVM tool to Linux 3.1.
>
> [ The changes to 9p headers were already merged but show up in the pull
> request. ]
>
> The goal of this tool is to provide a clean, from-scratch, lightweight
> KVM host
> tool implementation that can boot Linux guest images with no BIOS
> dependencies
> and with only the minimal amount of legacy device emulation. The primary
> focus
> of the tool is to Linux but there are already people on working on
> supporting
> GRUB and other operating systems.

lguest already does this and lives in the kernel.

So purely from a kernel perspective, why have two tools in the tree that 
do the same thing?  Shouldn't you at least unify the userspace with the 
lguest userspace?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
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