Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752048Ab1DCKWp (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2011 06:22:45 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35467 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751045Ab1DCKWo (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2011 06:22:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4D984A58.5090902@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:22:16 +0300 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Fedora/3.1.9-0.39.b3pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pekka Enberg CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aarcange@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, joro@8bytes.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, asias.hejun@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool References: <1301592656.586.15.camel@jaguar> <4D982E89.8070502@redhat.com> <4D9847BC.9060906@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1196 Lines: 29 On 04/03/2011 01:17 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Avi, > > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> SMP, networking, and simpler guest to host communication from shell > >> are most interesting missing features for me. > > > > If it is to be more than a toy, then Windows (really generic guest) support, > > manageability, live migration, hotplug, etc. are all crucial. > > It's definitely not a toy, it's my main virtualization tool of choice > for kernel development! ;-) > > The features you mention are crucial for servers but not for desktop. > I personally don't have much need for managing and live-migrating > Windows guests but if someone is interested in working on that, we're > happy to take patches! Well, I'd say you do need generic guest support for desktop (but not the other stuff I mentioned). Are you planning to add a real GUI? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- 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/