From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKiHy-0007P0-Cm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:53:46 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKiHx-0007Oj-Rq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:53:45 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKiHx-0007Og-D3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:53:45 -0500 Received: from e36.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.154]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKiHw-00052r-TH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:53:45 -0500 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e36.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0VMrfi1031459 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:53:41 -0500 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m0VMrfB1199340 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:53:41 -0700 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m0VMresZ000444 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:53:41 -0700 Message-ID: <47A25177.3080709@us.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:53:43 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Support for the Kernel Virtual Machine interface References: <1201818980-27534-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1201818980-27534-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Paul Brook FYI, for the new files introduced, Avi should be following up with a patch to add Copyrights to the files. They will be licensed under the GPL. Regards, Anthony Liguori Anthony Liguori wrote: > KVM is a Linux interface for providing userspace interfaces for accelerated > virtualization. It has been included since 2.6.20 and supports Intel VT and > AMD-V. Ports are under way for ia64, embedded PowerPC, and s390. > > This set of patches provide basic support for KVM in QEMU. It does not include > all of the changes in the KVM QEMU branch (such as virtio, live migration, > extboot, etc). However, if we can get these first portions merged, I will > follow up with the remainder of the changes and I believe we can be fully > merged in the very near future. > > The first 5 patches of this series are not KVM specific but are critical fixes > for KVM to be functional. The 6th patch provides KVM support. The goal in > providing KVM support is to make sure that when KVM support is not compiled in, > the code paths aren't changed at all. I hope this makes it very easy to merge. > > KVM moves very quickly, so I'd appreciate if these patches can be reviewed as > soon as possible as it's going to be tough to keep them in sync with the main > KVM tree while they're out of tree. > > To enable KVM support, you have to have to libkvm installed. You should also > explicitly specify the location of your kernel tree (with KVM headers) with the > --kernel-path option. We will improve libkvm such that this isn't required in > future versions. > > KVM also has an enhanced Bochs BIOS. I've tested these patches with out it and > it's not strictly necessary for basic functionality. I would recommend pulling > in a copy of it though as it has useful fixes even in the absence of KVM. > > A very large number of people have contributed to these patches with Avi Kivity > being the main developer of this support. For a full listing of contributers, > please consult the KVM ChangeLog[1]. > > [1] http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > kvm-devel mailing list > kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel >