Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752504Ab1DCNTh (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2011 09:19:37 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:34372 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752432Ab1DCNTg (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2011 09:19:36 -0400 Message-ID: <4D9873CD.3080207@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:19:09 +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: Anthony Liguori CC: Pekka Enberg , 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> <4D98716D.9040307@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4D98716D.9040307@codemonkey.ws> 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: 1379 Lines: 40 On 04/03/2011 04:09 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 04/03/2011 05:11 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 04/03/2011 12:59 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: >>> Hi Avi, >>> >>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >>> >> Note that this is a development prototype for the time being: >>> there's no >>> >> networking support and no graphics support, amongst other missing >>> >> essentials. >>> > >>> > Mind posting a roadmap? I would put smp support near the top. >>> This sort of >>> > thing has to be designed in, otherwise you wind up with a big >>> lock like >>> > qemu. >>> >>> What are the pain points with qemu at the moment? >> >> It's an ugly gooball. > > Because it solves a lot of very difficult problems. > > You could drop all of the TCG support and it'd still be an ugly gooball. > > Supporting lots of different emulated hardware devices, live > migration, tons of different types of networking and image formats, > etc., all adds up over time. Sure, any succcesful project becomes an ugly gooball. It's almost a compliment. -- 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/