From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8620EC8300F for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2020 23:23:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39A0F206F9 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2020 23:23:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725971AbgLBXXT (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2020 18:23:19 -0500 Received: from mail-wr1-f65.google.com ([209.85.221.65]:33570 "EHLO mail-wr1-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726253AbgLBXXS (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2020 18:23:18 -0500 Received: by mail-wr1-f65.google.com with SMTP id u12so6899wrt.0; Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:23:02 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=vhazsnwkBN4W5bW7O942iWaDDf+hT2e4BRRd7kmtCxk=; b=cn5d/9u0iBmN3qrU1cIgrFmALe0gWqS8hrs2Tx2XU5STLG5N0ZEdF46eHIk/ERImkh 9CnKUIBN1Ojd042sT5AVO1NumdDCMwbV/s3xhTEt85L8tz3muMB6zCH1lz8RHSdDnf/f +F7lrJE4oF5CfNfGAyooP3PiTMNTM624nMQ6fCxX9Ze7oJXswICqSBRfOK+cbPo7AzdU 1m/ib3Hdqw7RQNT36CKe16l8Zy84veThPkYyuKPyIoefR7sVcveB5l4y/p3TzGHIQPbg O03oXCibkGzlRUHfk6zkgTkYsgpfDpCJpOBb/qP1SX9/dFF5IxEIUnungAYEwjMypJ2a Rlkw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5334PZb0JYCi7MdnMYvH/+coMd7auVaTod9mfqXcTa7x0kYamR+5 vadJbpZf2BYI3ocTV5GF/bY= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwfx0KMkyXddeSfYgQzOOwxcl+ncL7oFhNmZQjEMNEOFs7rbcaWlo6BLSvWqXcN6wzzmZ4Abw== X-Received: by 2002:adf:a495:: with SMTP id g21mr422743wrb.213.1606951356855; Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:22:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from liuwe-devbox-debian-v2 ([51.145.34.42]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 90sm207272wrl.60.2020.12.02.15.22.36 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:22:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 23:22:34 +0000 From: Wei Liu To: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" Cc: Wei Liu , Linux on Hyper-V List , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Linux Kernel List , Michael Kelley , Vineeth Pillai , Sunil Muthuswamy , Nuno Das Neves , sameo@linux.intel.com, robert.bradford@intel.com, sebastien.boeuf@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] Introducing Linux root partition support for Microsoft Hypervisor Message-ID: <20201202232234.5buzu5wysiaro3hc@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2> References: <20201124170744.112180-1-wei.liu@kernel.org> <227127cf-bfea-4a06-fcbc-f6c46102e9e6@metux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <227127cf-bfea-4a06-fcbc-f6c46102e9e6@metux.net> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 08:51:38PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 24.11.20 18:07, Wei Liu wrote: > > Hi, > > > There will be a subsequent patch series to provide a > > device node (/dev/mshv) such that userspace programs can create and run virtual > > machines. > > Any chance of using the already existing /dev/kvm interface ? > I don't follow. Do you mean reusing /dev/kvm but with a different set of APIs underneath? I don't think that will work. In any case, the first version of /dev/mshv was posted a few days ago [0]. While we've chosen to follow closely KVM's model, Microsoft Hypervisor has its own APIs. Wei. 0: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hyperv/1605918637-12192-1-git-send-email-nunodasneves@linux.microsoft.com/ > --mtx > > -- > --- > Hinweis: unverschlüsselte E-Mails können leicht abgehört und manipuliert > werden ! Für eine vertrauliche Kommunikation senden Sie bitte ihren > GPG/PGP-Schlüssel zu. > --- > Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult > Free software and Linux embedded engineering > info@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287