Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On 5/22/07, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I didn't think we were talking about the general case, I thought we >>> were discussing the PV case. >>> >>> >> In case of KVM no one is speaking of pure PV. >> >> > > Why not? It seems worthwhile to come up with something that can cover > the whole spectrum instead of having different hypervisors (and > interfaces). >
Because in a few years, almost everyone will have hardware capable of doing full virtualization so why bother with pure PV. > Maybe my view is skewed because I don't care to run windows. > It's not just windows. There are a lot of people who want to use virtualization to run RHEL2 or even RH9. Backporting PV to these kernels is a huge effort. Regards, Anthony Liguori > -eric > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > kvm-devel mailing list > kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel