From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Ideas wiki for GSoC 2010 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:48:51 +0100 Message-ID: <4B9A0E03.8080603@redhat.com> References: <20100310183023.6632aece@redhat.com> <4B98A20E.4000900@redhat.com> <20100311225918.GA15170@shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Avi Kivity , Luiz Capitulino , aliguori@us.ibm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, agraf@suse.de, agl@us.ibm.com To: Jamie Lokier Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f46.google.com ([74.125.82.46]:59089 "EHLO mail-ww0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932067Ab0CLJsz (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:48:55 -0500 Received: by wwb39 with SMTP id 39so662740wwb.19 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:48:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100311225918.GA15170@shareable.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/11/2010 11:59 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 03/10/2010 11:30 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote: >>> >>> 2. Do we have kvm-specific projects? Can they be part of the QEMU project >>> or do we need a different mentoring organization for it? >>> >> >> Something really interesting is kvm-assisted tcg. I'm afraid it's a bit >> too complicated to GSoC. > > Is this simpler: kvm-assisted user-mode emulation (no TCG involved)? Or running TCG-compiled code as a guest so that for example KVM takes care of the softmmu (with hardware-assisted paging possibly, yoohoo). But I have no idea if that is what Avi meant. :-) Paolo