From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752017Ab1KFMOT (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2011 07:14:19 -0500 Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:64154 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751525Ab1KFMOR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2011 07:14:17 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4EB67486.1070105@redhat.com> References: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <4EB65C5B.8070709@redhat.com> <4EB66036.4080102@redhat.com> <1320577728.1428.73.camel@jaguar> <4EB67486.1070105@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:14:16 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: kD_CygQEZUDes4HtEsyz1Yl1oQA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels From: Pekka Enberg To: Avi Kivity Cc: Alexander Graf , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org list" , qemu-devel Developers , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico_Wang?= , Blue Swirl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> People seem to think the KVM tool is only about solving a specific >> problem to kernel developers. That's certainly never been my goal as I >> do lots of userspace programming as well. The end game for me is to >> replace QEMU/VirtualBox for Linux on Linux virtualization for my day to >> day purposes. > > Maybe it should be in tools/pekka then.  Usually subsystems that want to > be merged into Linux have broaded audiences though. I think you completely missed my point. I'm simply saying that KVM tool was never about solving a narrow problem Alexander's script is trying to solve. That's why I feel it's such a pointless exercise. Pekka From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pekka Enberg Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:14:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <4EB65C5B.8070709@redhat.com> <4EB66036.4080102@redhat.com> <1320577728.1428.73.camel@jaguar> <4EB67486.1070105@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "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 To: Avi Kivity Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4EB67486.1070105@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> People seem to think the KVM tool is only about solving a specific >> problem to kernel developers. That's certainly never been my goal as I >> do lots of userspace programming as well. The end game for me is to >> replace QEMU/VirtualBox for Linux on Linux virtualization for my day to >> day purposes. > > Maybe it should be in tools/pekka then. =A0Usually subsystems that want t= o > be merged into Linux have broaded audiences though. I think you completely missed my point. I'm simply saying that KVM tool was never about solving a narrow problem Alexander's script is trying to solve. That's why I feel it's such a pointless exercise. Pekka From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53002) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RN1cB-0005j2-55 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:14:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RN1cA-0004N1-1C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:14:19 -0500 Received: from mail-vw0-f45.google.com ([209.85.212.45]:36932) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RN1c9-0004Mx-PH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:14:17 -0500 Received: by vws17 with SMTP id 17so3449691vws.4 for ; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:14:17 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: penberg@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4EB67486.1070105@redhat.com> References: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <4EB65C5B.8070709@redhat.com> <4EB66036.4080102@redhat.com> <1320577728.1428.73.camel@jaguar> <4EB67486.1070105@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:14:16 +0200 Message-ID: From: Pekka Enberg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Avi Kivity Cc: "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 On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> People seem to think the KVM tool is only about solving a specific >> problem to kernel developers. That's certainly never been my goal as I >> do lots of userspace programming as well. The end game for me is to >> replace QEMU/VirtualBox for Linux on Linux virtualization for my day to >> day purposes. > > Maybe it should be in tools/pekka then. =A0Usually subsystems that want t= o > be merged into Linux have broaded audiences though. I think you completely missed my point. I'm simply saying that KVM tool was never about solving a narrow problem Alexander's script is trying to solve. That's why I feel it's such a pointless exercise. Pekka