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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Native Linux KVM tool for 3.1
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On 07/24/2011 03:37 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> Please consider pulling from
>
> ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux.git
> kvm-tool-for-linus
>
> to merge the Native Linux KVM tool to Linux 3.1.
>
> [ The changes to 9p headers were already merged but show up in the pull
> request. ]
>
> The goal of this tool is to provide a clean, from-scratch, lightweight
> KVM host
> tool implementation that can boot Linux guest images with no BIOS
> dependencies
> and with only the minimal amount of legacy device emulation. The primary
> focus
> of the tool is to Linux but there are already people on working on
> supporting
> GRUB and other operating systems.

lguest already does this and lives in the kernel.

So purely from a kernel perspective, why have two tools in the tree that 
do the same thing?  Shouldn't you at least unify the userspace with the 
lguest userspace?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori