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

Alexander Graf
2011-07-25T12:54:35Z

On 25.07.2011, at 14:51, Sasha Levin wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 15:47 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 07/25/2011 03:45 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Alexander Graf<agraf@suse.de> wrote:
>>>>> And don't get this the wrong way either, I'm not hostile against other
>>>>> operating systems, but I simply am not interested enough in them to
>>>>> spend my time improving them.
>>>>
>>>> Then kvm-tool is about as useful as Mac-on-Linux. Why don't we have MoL user land in the kernel? I even added support for KVM to it about a year ago. So all I need to do is change it to the kernel coding style, add some dependencies on kernel headers and I'm good for a pull request?
>>>
>>> Oh, I dunno - have you tried that? If you're interested in sending a
>>> patch against tools/kvm that adds KVM-based support to Mac, I'm happy
>>> to review it and consider for inclusion. ;-)
>>
>> The patch will be a lot bigger than tools/kvm itself.
>>
>
> But it would be as a single patch series which includes kvm and
> tools/kvm :)

Not sure I get what you mean here. We already have KVM support for Macs ;). And pSeries. And the PS3. It even works on the Wii.

Alex