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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test ker
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Avi Kivity |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels |
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Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:50:30 +0200 |
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On 11/06/2011 01:08 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 12:23 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > In most installations, qemu is driven by other programs, so any changes
> > to the command line would be invisible, except insofar as they break things.
> >
> > For the occasional direct user of qemu, something like 'qemu-kvm -m 1G
> > /images/blah.img' is enough to boot an image. This script doesn't help
> > in any way.
> >
> > This script is for kernel developers who don't want to bother with
> > setting up a disk image (which, btw, many are still required to do - I'm
> > guessing most kernel developers who use qemu are cross-arch). It has
> > limited scope and works mostly by hiding qemu features. As such it
> > doesn't belong in qemu.
>
> I'm certainly not against merging the script if people are actually
> using it and it solves their problem.
>
> I personally find the whole exercise pointless because it's not
> attempting to solve any of the fundamental issues QEMU command line
> interface
There are no "fundamental qemu command line issues". It's hairy, yes,
and verbose, but using "fundamental" to describe a choice between one
arcane set command line options and another is a bit of overstatement.
Most users will use a GUI anyway.
> has nor does it try to make Linux on Linux virtualization
> simpler and more integrated.
So far, kvm-tool capabilities are a subset of qemu's. Does it add
anything beyond a different command-line?
> People seem to think the KVM tool is only about solving a specific
> problem to kernel developers. That's certainly never been my goal as I
> do lots of userspace programming as well. The end game for me is to
> replace QEMU/VirtualBox for Linux on Linux virtualization for my day to
> day purposes.
Maybe it should be in tools/pekka then. Usually subsystems that want to
be merged into Linux have broaded audiences though.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Alexander Graf, 2011/11/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Andreas Färber, 2011/11/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Avi Kivity, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Avi Kivity, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels,
Avi Kivity <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Avi Kivity, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Avi Kivity, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Avi Kivity, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Avi Kivity, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Anthony Liguori, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/06