From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030344AbXCFJ6G (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 04:58:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030493AbXCFJ6G (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 04:58:06 -0500 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([82.166.9.18]:55074 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030344AbXCFJ6F (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 04:58:05 -0500 Message-ID: <45ED3A8D.9090906@argo.co.il> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:55:25 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerd Hoffmann CC: Ingo Molnar , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , virtualization , Jan Beulich , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Roland McGrath , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Xen & VMI? References: <20070305120631.GA14105@elte.hu> <1173101297.26165.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1173142644.4644.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45ECBDDC.8080708@vmware.com> <45ECC076.9050209@goop.org> <45ECC91D.1020809@vmware.com> <45ECC9B6.1060209@goop.org> <20070306081909.GA9331@elte.hu> <45ED2837.3020108@suse.de> <20070306085222.GA17002@elte.hu> <45ED3121.8090308@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <45ED3121.8090308@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Oh, and btw: What was the reason why kvm paravirtualization doesn't use > the vmi interface? > > There actually was proof of concept code to do just that (by Anthony Liguori). For Linux, I feel paravirt_ops is superior as we can extend it if something is missing. If VMI is adopted by non-Linux guests, we may support it as a quick way to add paravirt support for those guests. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function