Re: Paravirt KVM capabilities

sean-cz32UWRuVxBIf6P1QZMOBw
2007-01-10T11:00:56Z

Hello all,

hard and software virtualisation has been with us since the mid 1960's, as
I am sure you are all aware of.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM/CMS

JC

On Wed, January 10, 2007 11:46, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 10:47 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>> * Rusty Russell <rusty-8n+1lVoiYb80n/F98K4Iww@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> regarding ABI: agreed that it's experimental right now and should stay so
>> for some time, but i dont see a reason why the hypercall API that i've
>> posted in the past few days couldnt be evolved in the way Linux syscalls
>> evolve, by only adding to them. That doesnt really impact the
>> flexibility of the virtualization subsystem. We could also possibly
>> phase out older hypercalls, because the number of "applications"
>> relying on it will be very low.
>
> I suggest you continue adding hypercalls, and see where you end up. It
> will be very interesting, particularly when you get to the paravirt_ops
> lazy_mode hooks.
>
> However, I believe it is worthwhile to have a mini hypervisor which
> totals less than 5000 lines, including userspace utilities. I don't
> believe it will change the world, but maybe some of the ideas will be
> incorporated in "big serious" hypervisors. But meanwhile, it's fun!
>
> Cheers!
> Rusty.
>
>
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