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

Pekka Enberg
2011-11-06T13:11:50Z

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> Alex's script, though, is just a few dozen lines.  kvm-tool is a 20K
> patch - in fact 2X as large as kvm when it was first merged.  And it's
> main feature seems to be that "it is not qemu".

I think I've mentioned many times that I find the QEMU source terribly
difficult to read and hack on. So if you mean "not qemu" from that
point of view, sure, I think it's a very important point. The command
line interface is also "not qemu" for a very good reason too.

As for virtio drivers and such, we're actually following QEMU's
example very closely. I guess we're going to diverge a bit for better
guest isolation but fundamentally I don't see why we'd want to be
totally different from QEMU on that level.

Pekka