From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:11:08 +0300 Message-ID: <4D9847BC.9060906@redhat.com> References: <1301592656.586.15.camel@jaguar> <4D982E89.8070502@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aarcange@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, joro@8bytes.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, asias.hejun@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu To: Pekka Enberg Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 04/03/2011 12:59 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Avi, > > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Note that this is a development prototype for the time being: there's no > >> networking support and no graphics support, amongst other missing > >> essentials. > > > > Mind posting a roadmap? I would put smp support near the top. This sort of > > thing has to be designed in, otherwise you wind up with a big lock like > > qemu. > > What are the pain points with qemu at the moment? It's an ugly gooball. > SMP, networking, and simpler guest to host communication from shell > are most interesting missing features for me. If it is to be more than a toy, then Windows (really generic guest) support, manageability, live migration, hotplug, etc. are all crucial. > I'd also love to have > GPU support for X and friends. Should be easy to get by integrating spice (but that gives you a remote-optimized display, not local). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function