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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:43:20 +0200
From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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To: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] KVM: userspace interface
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John Stoffel wrote:
> Avi> This patch defines a bunch of ioctl()s on /dev/kvm.  The ioctl()s
> Avi> allow adding memory to a virtual machine, adding a virtual cpu to
> Avi> a virtual machine (at most one at this time), transferring
> Avi> control to the virtual cpu, and querying about guest pages
> Avi> changed by the virtual machine.
>
> Yuck.  ioclts are deprecated, you should be using /sysfs instead for
> stuff like this, or configfs.  
>   

I need to pass small amounts of data back and forth very efficiently.  
sysfs and configfs are more for one-time admin stuff, not for continuous 
device control.


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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