From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46254) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNMRI-00029Z-Dr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:28:29 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNMRC-0004js-No for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:28:28 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55171) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNMRC-0004jm-Cx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:28:22 -0500 Message-ID: <4EB7B375.4090904@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:31:17 +0100 From: Kevin Wolf MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4EB67486.1070105@redhat.com> <4EB67D17.7000701@redhat.com> <4EB680D9.2070706@redhat.com> <4EB6AE34.2000907@redhat.com> <4EB6BAED.2030400@redhat.com> <4EB6BEFA.6000303@codemonkey.ws> <20111106183132.GA4500@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20111106183132.GA4500@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Ted Ts'o , Anthony Liguori , Avi Kivity , Pekka Enberg , "kvm@vger.kernel.org list" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" , qemu-devel Developers , Alexander Graf , Blue Swirl , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico_Wang?= , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds Am 06.11.2011 19:31, schrieb Ted Ts'o: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 11:08:10AM -0600, Anthony Liguori 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. > > My big wish is that they don't try to merge the KVM tool into the > kernel code. It's a separate userspace project, and there's no reason > for it to be bundled with kernel code. It just makes the kernel > sources larger. In fact, the reverse is true as well: It makes kvm-tool's sources larger. Instead on just cloning a small repository I need to clone the whole kernel repository, even though I'm not a kernel developer and don't intend to touch anything but tools/kvm. Not too bad for me as I have a kernel repository lying around anyway and I can share most of the content, but there are people who don't. Still, having an additional 1.2 GB repository just for ~1 MB in which I'm really interested doesn't make me too happy. And dealing with a huge repository also means that even git becomes slower (which means, I had to turn off some functionality for my shell prompt in this repo, as I didn't like waiting for much more than a second or two) Makes it a lot less hackable for me unless you want to restrict the set of potential developers to Linux kernel developers... Kevin