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

Alexander Graf
2011-07-25T09:06:52Z

On 25.07.2011, at 10:47, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
>>> different direction we're taking. Hell, we even went ahead and wrote our own
>>> mini-BIOS just to keep things in one unified tree. ]
>>
>> Yes, making sure that you have even more non-working non-Linux OSs.
>
> You know, I've been a Linux kernel hacker for more than five years now
> and I've spent way too much of my spare time to improve it. So yes, I
> care about Linux. I care about it a lot, actually. It's fair to say I
> care about Linux more than I care about it more than any other
> operating system out there.
>
> [ I thought the 'native Linux' part in 'native Linux KVM tool' was a
> dead giveaway, really. ]
>
> Now if people want to support other operating systems, that's cool and
> I'm happy to help out where I can. But I don't understand why people
> keep bringing non-Linux OSs as an argument for not merging tools/kvm
> into the Linux kernel tree. I mean really, did someone actually expect
> that a Linux kernel developer spends his weekends improving the state
> of Windows virtualization?
>
> 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?

Alex