From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751413Ab1KFKE6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2011 05:04:58 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:38808 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750979Ab1KFKE4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2011 05:04:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> References: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 12:04:55 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: dArPWzvX4IDmB8fMJ8AayK2Ikrs Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels From: Pekka Enberg To: Alexander Graf Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Avi Kivity , "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 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Alexander, On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > On LinuxCon I had a nice chat with Linus on what he thinks kvm-tool > would be doing and what he expects from it. Basically he wants a > small and simple tool he and other developers can run to try out and > see if the kernel they just built actually works. > > Fortunately, QEMU can do that today already! The only piece that was > missing was the "simple" piece of the equation, so here is a script > that wraps around QEMU and executes a kernel you just built. I'm happy to see some real competition for the KVM tool in usability. ;-) That said, while the script looks really useful for developers, wouldn't it make more sense to put it in QEMU to make sure it's kept up-to-date and distributions can pick it up too? (And yes, I realize the irony here.) 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 12:04:55 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org list" , qemu-devel Developers , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" , Blue Swirl , Avi Kivity , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico_Wang?= , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds To: Alexander Graf Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> 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 Hi Alexander, On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > On LinuxCon I had a nice chat with Linus on what he thinks kvm-tool > would be doing and what he expects from it. Basically he wants a > small and simple tool he and other developers can run to try out and > see if the kernel they just built actually works. > > Fortunately, QEMU can do that today already! The only piece that was > missing was the "simple" piece of the equation, so here is a script > that wraps around QEMU and executes a kernel you just built. I'm happy to see some real competition for the KVM tool in usability. ;-) That said, while the script looks really useful for developers, wouldn't it make more sense to put it in QEMU to make sure it's kept up-to-date and distributions can pick it up too? (And yes, I realize the irony here.) Pekka From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43373) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMzb0-0001Dc-Tr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:04:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMzaz-00035G-MR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:04:58 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f173.google.com ([209.85.161.173]:34239) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMzaz-00034x-HJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:04:57 -0500 Received: by ggnp2 with SMTP id p2so416495ggn.4 for ; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:04:56 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: penberg@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> References: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 12:04:55 +0200 Message-ID: From: Pekka Enberg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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: Alexander Graf Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org list" , qemu-devel Developers , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" , Blue Swirl , Avi Kivity , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico_Wang?= , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds Hi Alexander, On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > On LinuxCon I had a nice chat with Linus on what he thinks kvm-tool > would be doing and what he expects from it. Basically he wants a > small and simple tool he and other developers can run to try out and > see if the kernel they just built actually works. > > Fortunately, QEMU can do that today already! The only piece that was > missing was the "simple" piece of the equation, so here is a script > that wraps around QEMU and executes a kernel you just built. I'm happy to see some real competition for the KVM tool in usability. ;-) That said, while the script looks really useful for developers, wouldn't it make more sense to put it in QEMU to make sure it's kept up-to-date and distributions can pick it up too? (And yes, I realize the irony here.) Pekka