From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751729Ab1GYJqw (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:46:52 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:37277 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751074Ab1GYJqq convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:46:46 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Native Linux KVM tool for 3.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Alexander Graf In-Reply-To: <20110725094136.GE28787@elte.hu> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:46:42 +0200 Cc: Pekka Enberg , Jan Kiszka , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, avi@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, gorcunov@gmail.com, levinsasha928@gmail.com, asias.hejun@gmail.com, prasadjoshi124@gmail.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: References: <4E2CA6DE.4040900@web.de> <20110725075305.GA32294@elte.hu> <0EAA5203-D598-4CBA-B8D2-AB371A7689A9@suse.de> <20110725085426.GA28787@elte.hu> <20110725094136.GE28787@elte.hu> To: Ingo Molnar X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 25.07.2011, at 11:41, Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> Virtualization is very tightly bound to the kernel, like it or >>> not. So is profiling, power management and a few other things. > > It's a very simple point and observation: tools which integrate to > the kernel so that they wouldnt even run on another kernel obviously > are very natural to develop in tools/. Ah, very good. So all we need to do to prove the point that kvm-tool doesn't belong in tools/ is port KVM to another OS and make kvm-tool compile there too? Shouldn't be too hard. People already have working ports of (old) KVM versions on FreeBSD and Windows. Alex