Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932613AbWCPAFv (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:05:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932614AbWCPAFv (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:05:51 -0500 Received: from iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de ([141.3.10.81]:51073 "EHLO iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932613AbWCPAFu (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:05:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20060315120257.28c18344.akpm@osdl.org> References: <200603131758.k2DHwQM7005618@zach-dev.vmware.com> <1142273346.3023.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4415B857.9010902@vmware.com> <20060315102522.GA5926@infradead.org> <20060315120257.28c18344.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Cc: hch@infradead.org, zach@vmware.com, arjan@infradead.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, dhecht@vmware.com, arai@vmware.com, anne@vmware.com, pratap@vmware.com, chrisl@vmware.com, chrisw@osdl.org, riel@redhat.com, jreddy@vmware.com, jlo@vmware.com, kmacy@fsmware.com, jbeulich@novell.com, ksrinivasan@novell.com, wim.coekaerts@oracle.com, leendert@watson.ibm.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Joshua LeVasseur Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/24] VMI i386 Linux virtualization interface proposal Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:05:19 +0100 To: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1518 Lines: 40 On Mar 15, 2006, at 21:02 , Andrew Morton wrote: > Joshua LeVasseur wrote: >> >> As part of our pre-virtualization work, we developed a virtualization >> solution similar to VMI. We support Xen v2 and v3 with high >> performance. We added support for the first generation of VMI to our >> project, and are currently adding support for the latest VMI patch. >> Our work is open source. We'll announce when we finish the VMI >> updates. > > Who is "we" and what product are you referring to? > > (I think an important part of this discussion is getting an > understanding > of which virtualisation products (current or planned) could use a > VMI). > > Thanks. This is a project at the University of Karlsruhe. The project web page is: http://l4ka.org/projects/virtualization/afterburn/ and there you'll find documentation and source code. The source code supports our pre-virtualization project on L4 and Xen (and we have some nascent implementations for Linux-as-hypervisor and Windows-as- hypervisor). We automate the transformations to the Linux code, thus minimizing the number of manual modifications. Due to the similarities of our approach and VMI, our virtualization runtime supports VMI with some minor additions. Joshua - 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/