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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Ideas wiki for GSoC 2010
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To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: agraf@suse.de, aliguori@us.ibm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, agl@us.ibm.com

On 03/11/2010 11:59 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 03/10/2010 11:30 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>>>
>>> 2. Do we have kvm-specific projects? Can they be part of the QEMU project
>>>     or do we need a different mentoring organization for it?
>>>
>>
>> Something really interesting is kvm-assisted tcg.  I'm afraid it's a bit
>> too complicated to GSoC.
>
> Is this simpler: kvm-assisted user-mode emulation (no TCG involved)?

Or running TCG-compiled code as a guest so that for example KVM takes 
care of the softmmu (with hardware-assisted paging possibly, yoohoo). 
But I have no idea if that is what Avi meant. :-)

Paolo