Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add KVM support to QEMU

Glauber Costa
2008-10-28T23:04:18Z

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>
>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This patch only implements the bare minimum support to get a guest
>>> booting. It
>>> has very little impact the rest of QEMU and attempts to integrate nicely
>>> with
>>> the rest of QEMU.
>>>
>>
>> Huh? That isn't based on the qemu-accel patches ...
>>
>
> This is part of the reason for this exercise. I'd rather introduce KVM
> support first and then look at abstracting things, than vice versa. A
> number of the hooks in the current QEMUAccel tree are there for the wrong
> reason (to support the out-of-tree IO thread, for instance).
>
> If you just introduce something with various hooks and say, these are hooks
> we'll need, it's not possible to really evaluate whether the hooks are
> needed because nothing in the tree makes use of them.

We talked extensively on monday about it, and I'm in agreement with it.

>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
>> surprised,
>> Gerd
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