Re: [RFC] QEMU KVM target

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Here's a tiny patch that adds a i386-kvm target.  The main difference 
> between the i386-kvm and i386-softmmu target is that the -kvm target 
> does not have any of the dyngen infrastructure.  This means that it 
> will build with gcc-4.  I know you can do --cc=gcc to use gcc-4 but 
> quite a few versions of gcc-4 have trouble with compiling dyngen.
>
> I also suspect this may prove useful down the road.  What do other 
> people think?  I'm not terribly tied to the i386-kvm name for what 
> it's worth.
>

That kills the -no-kvm switch, which allows a single binary to be used 
both with and without kvm.  Or do you think both target-i386+kvm and 
target-kvm ought to be kept?

My thinking about qemu integration is that kqemu/kvm code needs to be 
abstracted into an API  to reduce the #ifdefing in qemu, and that API 
could call kqemu or kvm as appropriate.


-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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