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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] Add KVM support for PPC64 (970) hosts
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:54:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A536FAA.1000509@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1246976262-4826-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de>

On 07/07/2009 05:17 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> KVM for PowerPC only supports embedded cores at the moment.
>
> While it makes sense to virtualize on small machines, it's even more fun
> to do so on big boxes. So I figured we need KVM for PowerPC64 as well.
>
> This patchset implements KVM support for PPC64 hosts and guest support
> for PPC64 and G3/G4.
>
> To really make use of this, you will also need a modified version of qemu
> that can deal with KVM on desktop cores. I will send out patches for those
> later, but want to get feedback on the kernel side first.
>
> In the meanwhile, use the qemu version from
> http://www.powerkvm.org/powerkvm.git which already includes all required
> patches to run PPC32 and PPC64 guests.
>    

 From a quick review (not that I'm qualified to review ppc code) this 
looks very good.

Does this support smp guests?

What are you plans on mmu notifier integration?

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-07 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-07 14:17 [PATCH 00/23] Add KVM support for PPC64 (970) hosts Alexander Graf
2009-07-07 15:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-07 15:49 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-07 15:54 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-07-07 15:56 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-07 16:08 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08  6:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-08  6:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-08  6:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-08  7:35 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-08  8:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-08  8:06 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08  8:19 ` [PATCH 00/23] Add KVM support for PPC64 (970) host Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-08  8:28 ` [PATCH 00/23] Add KVM support for PPC64 (970) hosts Alexander Graf
2009-07-08  8:43 ` [PATCH 00/23] Add KVM support for PPC64 (970) host Avi Kivity
2009-07-08  9:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-08 10:04 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 10:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-08 11:10 ` [PATCH 00/23] Add KVM support for PPC64 (970) hosts Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-08 12:29 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-08 21:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-22 22:58 ` Olof Johansson
2009-07-22 23:02 ` Olof Johansson

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