Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project

Alexander Graf
2010-03-22T11:23:01Z

On 22.03.2010, at 12:14, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>
> * Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 03/21/2010 11:54 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> * Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/21/2010 10:55 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>>> Of course you could say the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> ' Thanks, I'll mark this for v2.6.36 integration. Note that we are not
>>>>> able to add this to the v2.6.35 kernel queue anymore as the ongoing
>>>>> usability work already takes up all of the project's maintainer and
>>>>> testing bandwidth. If you want the feature to be merged sooner than that
>>>>> then please help us cut down on the TODO and BUGS list that can be found
>>>>> at XYZ. There's quite a few low hanging fruits there. '
>>>> That would be shooting at my own foot as well as the contributor's since I
>>>> badly want that RCU stuff, and while a GUI would be nice, that itch isn't on
>>>> my back.
>>> I think this sums up the root cause of all the problems i see with KVM pretty
>>> well.
>>
>> I think we agree at last. Neither I nor my employer are interested in
>> running qemu as a desktop-on-desktop tool, therefore I don't invest any
>> effort in that direction, or require it from volunteers.
>
> Obviously your employer at least in part defers to you when it comes to KVM
> priorities.
>
> So, just to make this really clear, _you_ are not interested in running qemu
> as a desktop-on-desktop tool, subsequently this kind of
> disinterest-for-desktop-usability trickled through the whole KVM stack and
> poisoned your attitude and your contributor's attitude.
>
> Too sad really and it's doubly sad that you dont feel anything wrong about
> that.

Please, don't jump to unjust conclusions.

The whole point is that there's no money behind desktop-on-desktop virtualization. Thus nobody pays people to work on it. Thus nothing significant happens in that space.

If there was someone standing up to create a really decent desktop qemu front-end I'm confident we'd even officially suggest using that. In fact, that whole discussion did come up in the weekly Qemu/KVM community call and everybody agreed heavily that we do need a desktop client.

The problem is just that there is nobody standing up. And I hope you don't expect Avi to be the one creating a GUI.

Alex