Re: KVM call for 2017-03-14

Peter Maydell
2017-03-13T14:17:49Z

On 13 March 2017 at 15:12, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> wrote:
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>> [Making QEMU more modular would help with defeating the legacy
>> and back-compat dragons, though]
>
> That would be ideal, but where to start? Think of something as "simple"
> asd adding a struct of operations that implement the differences for
> TCG, xen and kvm. And you see that you get into having to rewrite lot
> of code after moving to that abstraction just the more simple
> operations.

Oh, indeed, it's a huge and painful amount of work that
doesn't actually produce a product with more features when
you've done it. But if it was simple and easy we'd have
already done it and it wouldn't merit listing on a
"big problems we need to solve somehow" list :-)

thanks
-- PMM