From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tossati <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Joachim von Buttlar <joachim_von_buttlar@de.ibm.com>,
Jens Freimann <jfrei@de.ibm.com>,
Constantin Werner <constantin.werner@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/12] User controlled virtual machines
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:10:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ED77CE2.3050109@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111201125732.085553111@de.ibm.com>
On 12/01/2011 02:57 PM, Carsten Otte wrote:
> Hi Avi, Hi Marcelo,
>
> this patch series introduces an interface to allow a privileged userspace
> program to control a KVM virtual machine. The interface is intended for
> use by a machine simulator called CECSIM that can simulate an entire
> mainframe machine with nested virtualization and I/O for the purpose
> of testing and debugging its firmware prior to availability of silicon.
> This patchset allows for concurrent use of the KVM device driver to drive
> both regular and user controlled virtual machines at the same time.
> I would kindly like to ask for review and inclusion of these patches.
So, this moves the responsibility of handling intercepts from the kernel
to userspace, yes?
How much of the kvm code continues to be active after this? Perhaps it
makes sense to have a separate interface for this.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-01 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-01 12:57 [patch 00/12] User controlled virtual machines Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 01/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390: ioctl to switch to user " Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 13:15 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 13:31 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 14:20 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 02/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: per vcpu address spaces Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 13:19 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 03/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: export page faults to user Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 04/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: export SIE control block " Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 13:25 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 13:26 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 13:59 ` Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 14:04 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 05/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: disable in-kernel handling of SIE intercepts Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 06/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: disable in-kernel irq stack Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 07/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: interface to inject faults on a vcpu page table Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 08/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: disable sca Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 09/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390: fix assumption for KVM_MAX_VCPUS Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 10/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390: storage key interface Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 11/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: announce capability for user controlled vms Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 12/12] From: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 13:10 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-12-01 13:33 ` [patch 00/12] User controlled virtual machines Avi Kivity
2011-12-02 11:52 ` Carsten Otte
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