From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751548Ab1KFKMP (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2011 05:12:15 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:42898 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750979Ab1KFKMO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2011 05:12:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4EB65C5B.8070709@redhat.com> References: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <4EB65C5B.8070709@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 12:12:13 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: WX3asvaLIHA2-MqviFBs9z48XAg 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 12:07 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> 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.) > > Why would distributions want it?  It's only useful for kernel developers. It's useful for kernel testers too. If this is a serious attempt in making QEMU command line suck less on Linux, I think it makes sense to do this properly instead of adding a niche script to the kernel tree that's simply going to bit rot over time. 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 12:12:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <4EB65C5B.8070709@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: <4EB65C5B.8070709@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 12:07 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> 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.) > > Why would distributions want it? =A0It's only useful for kernel developer= s. It's useful for kernel testers too. If this is a serious attempt in making QEMU command line suck less on Linux, I think it makes sense to do this properly instead of adding a niche script to the kernel tree that's simply going to bit rot over time. Pekka From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMzi3-0003Qr-SC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:12:16 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMzi2-0003td-Px for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:12:15 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f45.google.com ([209.85.213.45]:52230) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMzi2-0003tZ-B6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:12:14 -0500 Received: by ywb3 with SMTP id 3so4891748ywb.4 for ; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:12:13 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: penberg@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4EB65C5B.8070709@redhat.com> References: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <4EB65C5B.8070709@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 12:12:13 +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 12:07 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> 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.) > > Why would distributions want it? =A0It's only useful for kernel developer= s. It's useful for kernel testers too. If this is a serious attempt in making QEMU command line suck less on Linux, I think it makes sense to do this properly instead of adding a niche script to the kernel tree that's simply going to bit rot over time. Pekka