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

Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07T01:38:27Z

On 11/06/2011 12:09 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>> I'm quite happy with KVM tool and hope they continue working on it. My only
>> real wish is that they wouldn't copy QEMU so much and would try bolder
>> things that are fundamentally different from QEMU.
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> Hey, right now our only source of crazy ideas is Ingo and I think he's
> actually a pretty conservative guy when it comes to technology. Avi
> has expressed some crazy ideas in the past but they require switching
> away from C and that's not something we're interested in doing. ;-)

Just a couple random suggestions:

- Drop SDL/VNC. Make a proper Cairo GUI with a full blown GTK interface. Don't
rely on virt-manager for this. Not that I have anything against virt-manager
but there are many layers between you and the end GUI if you go that route.

- Sandbox the device model from day #1. The size of the Linux kernel interface
is pretty huge and as a hypervisor, it's the biggest place for improvement from
a security perspective. We're going to do sandboxing in QEMU, but it's going to
be difficult. It would be much easier for you given where you're at.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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> Pekka
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