Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755721Ab1DJIF4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:05:56 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:12615 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755209Ab1DJIFt (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:05:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4DA164B2.5000504@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:05:06 +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: Andrea Arcangeli , Pekka Enberg , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, joro@8bytes.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, asias.hejun@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com 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> <4D9873CD.3080207@redhat.com> <20110406093333.GB6465@elte.hu> <4D9E6F6E.9050709@codemonkey.ws> <4D9F150B.1030809@codemonkey.ws> <20110408192039.GJ29444@random.random> <4D9F9359.20708@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4D9F9359.20708@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: 810 Lines: 21 On 04/09/2011 01:59 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > Yeah, if that's the goal, skip all the mini-BIOS junk and just rely on > a PV kernel in the guest. > > I think a mini userspace that assumes that we can change the guest > kernel and avoids having a ton of complexity to do things like CMOS > emulation would be a really interesting thing to do. > Changing the guest kernel is a lot more complicated than writing a full BIOS or the legacy devices needed to support it. See Xen for an example. -- 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/