Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: move vmware to hypervisor

H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-17T15:51:55Z

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

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