Re: [PATCH] Move KVM, paravirt, lguest, VMI and Xen under arch-level Virtualization option

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 17:49 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jul 20 2007 14:22, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >Subject: [PATCH] Move KVM, paravirt, lguest,
> >    VMI and Xen under arch-level Virtualization option
> >
> >Any objections?
> 
> Well btw, would it make sense to also rearrange the directory structure along
> with it, i.e.
> 
> drivers/kvm    => drivers/virt/kvm
> drivers/lguest => drivers/virt/lguest
> drivers/xen    => drivers/virt/xen
> 
> Then the full kconfig (with menuconfig,if,endif) can go to
> drivers/virt/Kconfig.

It would reduce clutter a little, but it'll never cover cases where the
arch is always virtualized.  You could move VMI there, but UML, PowerPC,
S/390 won't be moving.

I still think people expect virtualization under CPU features, so archs
should include the virt Kconfig explicitly there (rather than it just
appearing deep in drivers/).  At which point cut & pasting variations of
the CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION option is probably as good as any other
solution, and far less work.

Cheers,
Rusty.