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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: Split kvm source tarballs
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:44:58 -0500
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> Hrm, I notice that for qemu-kvm, you basically just pulled out the 
>> module source.
>>
>
> That's step 1.
>
>> What do you think about going a step further and building a proper 
>> qemu repository?
>>
>
> Step 2.  I have scripts that do that and will merge with Eduardo's 
> script that also rewrites the qemu commit hashes to correspond to 
> qemu.git on git.kernel.org.

That's what I figured.  FWIW, the split tarballs work just fine for me.

It may be worth waiting to do step 2 until the IO thread is merged.  I 
think once that happens, we could probably do a sprint to get rid of 
libkvm in kvm-userspace.  That would certainly simplify things.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori