From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
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Dan Arai <arai@vmware.com>, Anne Holler <anne@vmware.com>,
Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>,
Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>,
Joshua LeVasseur <jtl@ira.uka.de>, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Jyothy Reddy <jreddy@vmware.com>,
Jack Lo <jlo@vmware.com>, Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>,
Wim Coekaerts <wim.coekaerts@oracle.com>,
Leendert van Doorn <leendert@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/24] VMI i386 Linux virtualization interface proposal
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:25:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060315102522.GA5926@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4415B857.9010902@vmware.com>
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:22:15AM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> >Why can't vmware use the Xen interface instead?
> >
>
> We could. But it is our opinion that the Xen interface is unnecessarily
> complicated, without a clean separation between the layer of interaction
> with the hypervisor and the kernel proper. The interface we propose we
> believe is more powerful, and more conducive to performance
> optimizations while providing significant advantages - most
> specifically, a single binary image that is properly virtualizable on
> multiple hypervisors and capable of running on native hardware.
I agree with Zach here, the Xen hypervisor <-> kernel interface is
not very nice. This proposal seems like a step forward althogh it'll
probably need to go through a few iterations. Without and actually
useable opensource hypevisor reference implementation it's totally
unacceptable, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-15 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-13 17:58 Zachary Amsden
2006-03-13 18:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-13 18:22 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-13 18:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-13 18:30 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-13 18:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-13 18:48 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-13 19:02 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-13 18:56 ` Joshua LeVasseur
2006-03-16 18:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-13 18:56 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-03-13 18:59 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-15 10:25 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-03-15 15:57 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-15 17:38 ` Joshua LeVasseur
2006-03-15 20:02 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-16 0:05 ` Joshua LeVasseur
2006-03-13 20:17 ` Sam Vilain
2006-03-14 0:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-03-14 4:01 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-14 4:04 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-14 4:55 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-14 4:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-03-14 4:26 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-14 4:30 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-14 5:46 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-14 12:44 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-14 16:22 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-16 18:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-17 15:56 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-17 17:52 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-20 22:03 Anne Holler
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