Dor Laor wrote: > > > If you don't care about full virtualization kvm is the wrong project for > > > you. You might want to take a look at lguest. > > > > Ah, I had not realized that KVM was purely a full-virt environment > > with no real use for PV-only users. I'll move on. Thanks for the tip! > > ron > > Don't quit so soon on us. > KVM has already PV kernel capabilities (in Ingo Molnar's tree) and has > network and block PV drivers. > > We do plan on supporting/improving the PV kernel capabilities. The near > future change is direct guest paging. > Although all new x86 cpus now ship with hardware support, software PV > can always find spots for acceleration.
BTW, I'm presenting this at OLS: http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2007/view_abstract.php?content_key=192 This uses direct paging mode today. > > Regarding PV drivers, our initial approach was try not to invent the > wheel and implement the PV discovery using pci. For full-virt OSs, > especially windows it was simpler. Now that more platforms might be kvm > based, I agree we should switch to a generic solution. > Dor. > Jun --- Intel Open Source Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
