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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test ker
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Ted Ts'o |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels |
Date: |
Sun, 6 Nov 2011 13:31:32 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 11:08:10AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> I'm quite happy with KVM tool and hope they continue working on it.
> My only real wish is that they wouldn't copy QEMU so much and would
> try bolder things that are fundamentally different from QEMU.
My big wish is that they don't try to merge the KVM tool into the
kernel code. It's a separate userspace project, and there's no reason
for it to be bundled with kernel code. It just makes the kernel
sources larger. The mere fact that qemu-kvm exists means that the KVM
interface has to remain backward compatible; it *is* an ABI.
So integrating kvm-tool into the kernel isn't going to work as a free
pass to make non-backwards compatible changes to the KVM user/kernel
interface. Given that, why bloat the kernel source tree size?
Please, keep the kvm-tool sources as a separate git tree.
- Ted
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, (continued)
- 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
- 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, 2011/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels,
Ted Ts'o <=
- 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, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Ted Ts'o, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Vince Weaver, 2011/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Ingo Molnar, 2011/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Frank Ch. Eigler, 2011/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Ted Ts'o, 2011/11/07
- [Qemu-devel] [F.A.Q.] perf ABI backwards and forwards compatibility, Ingo Molnar, 2011/11/08