Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754617AbZCQPvz (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:51:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753982AbZCQPvr (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:51:47 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:60336 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753851AbZCQPvq (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:51:46 -0400 Message-ID: <49BFC6CB.9070603@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:50:35 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput CC: Ingo Molnar , x86 maintainers , LKML , akataria@vmware.com Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: move vmware to hypervisor References: <1237281581.7907.2.camel@ht.satnam> <20090317093919.GD6477@elte.hu> <1237283318.7907.9.camel@ht.satnam> In-Reply-To: <1237283318.7907.9.camel@ht.satnam> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 797 Lines: 22 Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: >> I dont really like this one. KVM is a hypervisor too, and so is >> Xen and lguest. VMware is one of the many types of a >> hypervisors. > > Can we use common hypervisor for Xen, lguest, vmware, etc. > And Xen, lguest, vmware will be the sub-options. Obviously. We spent a lot of time breaking up the cpu stuff into common and vendor-specific portions, we shouldn't go backwards w.r.t. hypervisors. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/