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

Sasha Levin
2011-07-25T13:15:01Z

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 14:54 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 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.

I assumed from Avi's comment that we don't have KVM for Macs. Ignore me
then.

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Sasha.