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From: Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool v2
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:01:22 +0800
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Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi124@gmail.com>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
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On 06/16/2011 10:28 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 06:53:34PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We=E2=80=99re proud to announce the second version of the Native Lin=
ux KVM tool! We=E2=80=99re
>> now officially aiming for merging to mainline in 3.1.
>>
>> Highlights:
>>
>> - Experimental GUI support using SDL and VNC
>>
>> - SMP support. tools/kvm/ now has a highly scalable, largely lockles=
s driver
>>   interface and the individual drivers are using finegrained locks.
>>
>> - TAP-based virtio networking
>=20
> Wanted to ask for a while: would it make sense to use vhost-net?
> Or maybe use that exclusively?
> Less hypervisor code to support would help the focus.
>=20

Sure. We are planning to use vhost-net. Just out of time right now, we
are currently working on simple user model network support which allows
plain user to use network without root privilege.

--=20
Best Regards,
Asias He