From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akataria@vmware.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: move vmware to hypervisor
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:50:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49BFC6CB.9070603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237283318.7907.9.camel@ht.satnam>
Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
>> I dont really like this one. KVM is a hypervisor too, and so is
>> Xen and lguest. VMware is one of the many types of a
>> hypervisors.
>
> Can we use common hypervisor for Xen, lguest, vmware, etc.
> And Xen, lguest, vmware will be the sub-options.
Obviously. We spent a lot of time breaking up the cpu stuff into common
and vendor-specific portions, we shouldn't go backwards w.r.t. hypervisors.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-17 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-17 9:19 [PATCH -tip] x86: move vmware to hypervisor Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-17 9:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-17 9:48 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-17 15:50 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-03-25 5:29 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-25 12:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-25 16:52 ` Alok Kataria
2009-03-25 17:07 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-25 17:24 ` Alok Kataria
2009-03-25 17:38 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-25 18:18 ` Alok Kataria
2009-03-26 7:10 ` david
2009-03-26 16:40 ` Alok Kataria
2009-03-27 0:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-25 13:38 ` Mark Lord
2009-03-17 17:28 ` Alok Kataria
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