From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Hilman Subject: Re: kvm status on lsk-3.14 Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:38:21 -0700 Message-ID: <7hio7rnsqq.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> References: <20150903085223.GD5171@cbox> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E6F42612 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2015 16:38:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JTiecLTCTngy for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2015 16:38:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-pa0-f51.google.com (mail-pa0-f51.google.com [209.85.220.51]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0656141D24 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2015 16:37:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pacwi10 with SMTP id wi10so1025602pac.3 for ; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:38:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150903085223.GD5171@cbox> (Christoffer Dall's message of "Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:52:23 +0200") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu Sender: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu To: Christoffer Dall Cc: "linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org" , Stuart Yoder , "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" List-Id: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu Christoffer Dall writes: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 04:56:46PM +0000, Stuart Yoder wrote: >> Chris, >> >> On the Linaro wiki there is an ARMv8 status page >> https://wiki.linaro.org/LSK/ARMv8 >> >> ...that seems a bit out of date. It reports that KVM >> support on the Linaro 3.14 kernel had a "target" of >> release 14.10 (last October). >> >> I see ~70 "arm64:" + "kvm:" patches added or backported >> to the Linaro 3.14 kernel. Is KVM considered 'supported' >> in the latest lsk-3.14? If yes, are there any known >> limitations or anything missing? > > We've backported most of the functionality and fixes up until 4.0, I > believe. > >> >> We have a customer interested in 3.14 on >> ARMv8 and would like to understand what I can say >> about KVM support on the Linaro 3.14 kernel. >> > > The biggest weakness is probably lack of testing for virtualization > purposes. I'm not aware of anyone haveing done any serious testing on > LSK with KVM. > > Cc'ing Kevin for his comments on the testing and status aspect. We're not doing any thorough testing, but at kernelci.org we are doing basic boot testing of KVM guest on a few platforms (x86, arm, arm64.) Boot results/logs are available at kernelci.org[1] Kevin [1] http://kernelci.org/job/lsk/branch/local:linux-linaro-lsk-v3.14/