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
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