linux-kernel - Re: linux next: Native Linux KVM tool inclusion request

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Message-ID: <CAOJsxLEgm_-N6297kHqSjFLCtX-Vd204S=+4Q=+GW9HYiWj1eg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:08:02 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux next: Native Linux KVM tool inclusion request

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:29:20PM +0300, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> I would like to ask you to include the Native Linux KVM tool in the
>> linux-next tree.

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> What has changed over the last rejection of it?  Again, I'm not against
> the tool, but there is no reason to throw it into the kernel tree with
> a completely misleading name.

Linus didn't reject it but postponed his decision to the next merge
window. We're going to send a pull request for 3.2 so we'd like the
code to be in linux-next.

As for changes, we've implemented rootfs over 9p with "kvm run"
booting to host filesystem "/bin/sh" by default. It still needs some
work and we hope to enable networking too. We also have patches to use
overlayfs so that the guest is able to use host filesystem in
copy-on-write manner.

                        Pekka
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