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

Pekka Enberg
2011-07-25T07:39:52Z

Hi Avi,

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Are you talking about Documentation/lguest/lguest.c? How would you
>> suggest we unify our code with that?
>
> It should be easy to have tools/kvm drive lguest - they're both virtio
> based.  All you need to do is provide yet another ops structure to drive the
> two ABIs.

Right, we could do that. But for what purpose? I thought Lguest ABI
was mostly for educational and testing purposes.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> I guess lguest.c has to remain, as point of lguest was a simple teaching aid
> for virtualization (which doesn't work very well, as the techniques it uses
> are obsolete).

Yup, I don't see point in merging lguest.c with tools/kvm.

Pekka