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

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Message-ID: <CAOJsxLHgtmv2muHTUqyXv_4a0Pt27vgR1D-UtwBz6n7yUa6--w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:39:45 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	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

Hi Avi,

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> wrote:
>> Are you talking about Documentation/lguest/lguest.c? How would you
>> suggest we unify our code with that?
>
> It should be easy to have tools/kvm drive lguest - they're both virtio
> based.  All you need to do is provide yet another ops structure to drive the
> two ABIs.

Right, we could do that. But for what purpose? I thought Lguest ABI
was mostly for educational and testing purposes.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> wrote:
> I guess lguest.c has to remain, as point of lguest was a simple teaching aid
> for virtualization (which doesn't work very well, as the techniques it uses
> are obsolete).

Yup, I don't see point in merging lguest.c with tools/kvm.

                        Pekka
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