Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] checkstack: use $UTS_MACHINE as target architecture

Richard Weinberger
2014-07-08T09:06:59Z

Am 08.07.2014 11:03, schrieb Konstantin Khlebnikov:
> I know. But debugging/profiling of kernel code is much easier when it
> runs in userspace.
> I think this is the last use case where uml might beat normal hardware
> accelerated qemu/kvm.
> But without SMP and with that high overhead on each syscall and
> context/mm switch it's mostly useless.

The major use case of UML is that you can run it on hardware without
KVM support.
Everyone else is using KVM.

Thanks,
//richard