From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alon Levy Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 13:15:34 +0300 Message-ID: <20110403101533.GJ4047@playa.redhat.com> References: <1301592656.586.15.camel@jaguar> <20110403090149.GI4047@playa.redhat.com> <1301824898.7875.5.camel@jaguar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Pekka Enberg Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1301824898.7875.5.camel@jaguar> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 01:01:38PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 12:01 +0300, Alon Levy wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:30:56PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > Hi all, > > >=20 > > > We=E2=80=99re proud to announce the native Linux KVM tool! > > >=20 > > > The goal of this tool is to provide a clean, from-scratch, lightw= eight > > > KVM host tool implementation that can boot Linux guest images (ju= st a > > > hobby, won't be big and professional like QEMU) with no BIOS > > > dependencies and with only the minimal amount of legacy device > > > emulation. > > >=20 > > > Note that this is a development prototype for the time being: the= re's no > > > networking support and no graphics support, amongst other missing > > > essentials. > >=20 > > I've looked at how to add spice to this, the qxl device should be r= elatively > > easy to add as it's just another pci device and you already support= the virtio > > block pci device. But to add the spice server library there needs t= o be some > > simple fd and timer (i.e. select/epoll) event loop, which I see is = missing. Are > > you planning on adding something like that? >=20 > We have kvm__start_timer() in tools/kvm/kvm.c. Can you use that as a > base for qxl? >=20 Haven't looked at it close enough yet, but if I can set an arbitrary ti= me ahead wakeup using it then it's good enough for timers. For waking up a= s a result of a socket being ready for read or write I need something els= e. Maybe I'm missing something and you already have something like that. > Pekka >=20 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html