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

Alexander Graf
2011-07-25T08:44:51Z

On 25.07.2011, at 10:37, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
>>> Damn you Ingo Molnar, I knew you'd somehow get all the credit for our
>>> hard work! ;-)
>>
>> Well, IIUC he's the one initiating the whole thing, no?
>
> As much as I appreciate Ingo's help and support with the project, no,
> I don't consider him to have initiated the whole thing. Yes, it's his
> idea and that's what got me into hacking on the thing in the first
> place. But calling this Ingo's crusade is somewhat missing the point.
> It's really people like Asias, Sasha, Cyrill, and Prashad who have
> made all the heavy lifting.
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
>>> More seriously, though, I fail to see what's bothering you Alexander.
>>> I and Ingo already mentioned we wouldn't be hacking on Qemu even if
>>> there wasn't no tools/kvm. It's not as if we're putting *your* user
>>> space code into the kernel tree - we wrote our own! What's wrong with
>>> that?
>>
>> Nothing. I like competition. But why push it into the kernel? It's not a kernel, it's not a library the kernels needs for internal stuff. So why would it have to be in there?
>
> For the same reasons we want tools/perf to be there.

Yeah, I want a pony too.

Alex