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

Alexander Graf
2011-07-25T09:46:52Z

On 25.07.2011, at 11:41, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>>> Virtualization is very tightly bound to the kernel, like it or
>>> not. So is profiling, power management and a few other things.
>
> It's a very simple point and observation: tools which integrate to
> the kernel so that they wouldnt even run on another kernel obviously
> are very natural to develop in tools/.

Ah, very good. So all we need to do to prove the point that kvm-tool doesn't belong in tools/ is port KVM to another OS and make kvm-tool compile there too? Shouldn't be too hard. People already have working ports of (old) KVM versions on FreeBSD and Windows.

Alex