Re: [GIT PULL] Native Linux KVM tool for 3.1

Ingo Molnar
2011-07-25T09:00:15Z

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> Virtualization is very tightly bound to the kernel, like it or not.
> So is profiling, power management and a few other things.
>
> And when you do 'ls tools/' you'll see exactly those topics
> populated:
>
> earth5:~/tip> ls tools/
> firewire kvm perf power slub testing usb virtio
>
> [ In fact tools/virtio/ was merged upstream yesterday and putting
> that code there was a good call IMO. ]

Correction: tools/virtio/ was merged much earlier than that - in
v2.6.37.

Still the point remains: you cannot ridicule us moving user-space
code to tools/ while virtio itself is moving code there ...

Thanks,

Ingo