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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Cam Macdonell <cam@cs.ualberta.ca>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org

On 06/23/2010 08:12 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/14/2010 06:53 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> index 0000000..e0a7b98
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/contrib/ivshmem-server/ivshmem_server.c
>>
>>
>> There's no licensing here.  I don't think this belongs in the qemu 
>> tree either to be honest. 
>
> I asked for this, to simplify life for people trying this out.
>
>> If it were to be included, it ought to use all of the existing qemu 
>> infrastructure like the other qemu-* tools.
>
> That's why it's in contrib/, a customary place for things included for 
> convenience but not really belonging.
>
> I don't mind leaving it out though.

I think it's better in the long term.  Then it has it's own tree and can 
evolve at it's own rate.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori