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Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>> People seem to think the KVM tool is only about solving a specific
>> problem to kernel developers. That's certainly never been my goal as I
>> do lots of userspace programming as well. The end game for me is to
>> replace QEMU/VirtualBox for Linux on Linux virtualization for my day to
>> day purposes.
>
> Maybe it should be in tools/pekka then.  Usually subsystems that want to
> be merged into Linux have broaded audiences though.

I think you completely missed my point.

I'm simply saying that KVM tool was never about solving a narrow
problem Alexander's script is trying to solve. That's why I feel it's
such a pointless exercise.

                        Pekka