From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751673Ab1GYJGw (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:06:52 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35195 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750886Ab1GYJGp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:06:45 -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: Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:06:40 +0200 Cc: Ingo Molnar , 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> To: Pekka Enberg 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 10:47, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: >>> different direction we're taking. Hell, we even went ahead and wrote our own >>> mini-BIOS just to keep things in one unified tree. ] >> >> Yes, making sure that you have even more non-working non-Linux OSs. > > You know, I've been a Linux kernel hacker for more than five years now > and I've spent way too much of my spare time to improve it. So yes, I > care about Linux. I care about it a lot, actually. It's fair to say I > care about Linux more than I care about it more than any other > operating system out there. > > [ I thought the 'native Linux' part in 'native Linux KVM tool' was a > dead giveaway, really. ] > > Now if people want to support other operating systems, that's cool and > I'm happy to help out where I can. But I don't understand why people > keep bringing non-Linux OSs as an argument for not merging tools/kvm > into the Linux kernel tree. I mean really, did someone actually expect > that a Linux kernel developer spends his weekends improving the state > of Windows virtualization? > > And don't get this the wrong way either, I'm not hostile against other > operating systems, but I simply am not interested enough in them to > spend my time improving them. Then kvm-tool is about as useful as Mac-on-Linux. Why don't we have MoL user land in the kernel? I even added support for KVM to it about a year ago. So all I need to do is change it to the kernel coding style, add some dependencies on kernel headers and I'm good for a pull request? Alex