Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751007AbWCMS5N (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:57:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750985AbWCMS5N (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:57:13 -0500 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:5588 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750756AbWCMS5M convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:57:12 -0500 From: Hollis Blanchard Organization: IBM Linux Technology Center To: virtualization@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/24] VMI i386 Linux =?iso-8859-1?q?virtualization=09interface=09proposal?= Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:56:49 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 Cc: Zachary Amsden , Arjan van de Ven , Xen-devel , Wim Coekaerts , Chris Wright , Christopher Li , Jan Beulich , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Anne Holler , Jyothy Reddy , Kip Macy , Ky Srinivasan , Leendert van Doorn References: <200603131758.k2DHwQM7005618@zach-dev.vmware.com> <1142274398.3023.40.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4415BA4F.3040307@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <4415BA4F.3040307@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603131256.51854.hollisb@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 916 Lines: 21 On Monday 13 March 2006 12:30, Zachary Amsden wrote: > It is an advantage for everyone. ?It cuts support and certification > costs for Linux distributors, software vendors, makes debugging and > development easier, and gives hypervisors room to grow while maintaining > binary compatibility with already released kernels. It certainly is good for kernel developers and end-users. However, it would be a foolish distributor or ISV who tests with one hypervisor and decides that covers all hypervisors which implement the same interface. So I'm not sure there's any advantage w.r.t. support and certification costs. -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/