[RFC] QEMU KVM Patch Queue

[RFC] QEMU KVM Patch Queue

[Anthony Liguori]

Howdy,

In an attempt to help prepare KVM's QEMU changes for upstream 
submission, I spent some time this evening splitting apart the
qemu-kvm-1.patch available on sf.net.  I've split them up into:

usb-linux.diff - linux/compiler.h fix

vmdk-snapshot.diff - vmdk snapshot support

apic-save-restore.diff - apic save/restore fix

timer-save-restore.diff - timer save/restore fix

gdbstubs-x86_64.diff - gdbstub for x86_64

kvm.diff - kvm changes

kvm-same-binary.diff - changes to kvm to allow it to be used in the same
binary as kqemu or normal qemu.  You can select to use kvm with the
-enable-kvm option.

I did this using a mercurial patch queue which is available here:

http://hg.codemonkey.ws/qemu-kvm/

If you're unfamiliar with mercurial, you can grab a tarball of the
patches here:

http://hg.codemonkey.ws/qemu-kvm/?ca=tip;type=bz2

I've tested a FC4 and Win2k guest.  Neither are working perfect under
KVM but my patches do not make it any worse at least :-)

This cleanup reduces the main KVM patch (not including the random 
cleanups) from about ~1300 lines to ~800 lines.

If preferred, I can send the patches to this list via a patch bomb...

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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Re: [RFC] QEMU KVM Patch Queue

[Avi Kivity]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> In an attempt to help prepare KVM's QEMU changes for upstream 
> submission, I spent some time this evening splitting apart the
> qemu-kvm-1.patch available on sf.net.  

Thanks, this is very useful!

> I've split them up into:
>
> apic-save-restore.diff - apic save/restore fix
>
> timer-save-restore.diff - timer save/restore fix

I think these two are actually from qemu cvs.

>
> gdbstubs-x86_64.diff - gdbstub for x86_64

I've tried to submit this to qemu already, not much luck.


>
> kvm.diff - kvm changes
>
> kvm-same-binary.diff - changes to kvm to allow it to be used in the same
> binary as kqemu or normal qemu.  You can select to use kvm with the
> -enable-kvm option.

This is massively useful.


>
> I did this using a mercurial patch queue which is available here:
>
> http://hg.codemonkey.ws/qemu-kvm/
>
> If you're unfamiliar with mercurial, you can grab a tarball of the
> patches here:
>
> http://hg.codemonkey.ws/qemu-kvm/?ca=tip;type=bz2
>
> I've tested a FC4 and Win2k guest.  Neither are working perfect under
> KVM but my patches do not make it any worse at least :-)
>
> This cleanup reduces the main KVM patch (not including the random 
> cleanups) from about ~1300 lines to ~800 lines.
>
> If preferred, I can send the patches to this list via a patch bomb...

Please do.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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