From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:07:23 +0200 Message-ID: <4EB65C5B.8070709@redhat.com> References: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org list" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" , qemu-devel Developers , Alexander Graf , Blue Swirl , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico_Wang?= , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds To: Pekka Enberg Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 11/06/2011 12:04 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On LinuxCon I had a nice chat with Linus on what he thinks kvm-tool > > would be doing and what he expects from it. Basically he wants a > > small and simple tool he and other developers can run to try out and > > see if the kernel they just built actually works. > > > > Fortunately, QEMU can do that today already! The only piece that was > > missing was the "simple" piece of the equation, so here is a script > > that wraps around QEMU and executes a kernel you just built. > > I'm happy to see some real competition for the KVM tool in usability. ;-) > > That said, while the script looks really useful for developers, > wouldn't it make more sense to put it in QEMU to make sure it's kept > up-to-date and distributions can pick it up too? (And yes, I realize > the irony here.) Why would distributions want it? It's only useful for kernel developers. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function