Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels

Avi Kivity
2011-11-07T12:45:05Z

On 11/07/2011 02:29 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Avi,
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> tools/power was merged in just 2 versions ago, do you think that
> >> merging that was a mistake?
> >
> > Things like tools/power may make sense, most of the code is tied to the
> > kernel interfaces. tools/kvm is 20k lines and is likely to be 40k+
> > lines or more before it is generally usable. The proportion of the code
> > that talks to the kernel is quite small.
>
> So what do you think about perf then? The amount of code that talks to
> the kernel is much smaller than that of the KVM tool.

Maybe it's outgrown the kernel repo too. Certainly something that has
perl and python integration, a TUI, and one day hopefully a GUI, doesn't
really need the kernel sources.

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