Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-17 Thread Sunil Amitkumar Janki
dragoran wrote: It looks like you are right. Apparently the plan is to move the acceptance of kernel modules to kernel maintainers. For the most part, they only want to accept very cleanly written modules that are likely to be integrated into the kernel. Since "kqemu" is viewed as a solution o

Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-17 Thread dragoran
Bill C. Riemers wrote: dragoran wrote: Bill C. Riemers wrote: You don't need to compile kqemu into the kernel. When I install dkms-kqemu from freshrpms, I do NOT rebuild my kernel. I am fairly certain with Fedora's new policy for extras, there would not be much of a problem getting it

Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-16 Thread Ed Swierk
On 8/16/07, Christian MICHON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > blame it on gmail. this is the default behaviour. > it's obviously not intended... At the risk of drifting further off-topic, I'd just point out that you can press Ctrl-End in the Gmail message window before you type your reply. --Ed

Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-16 Thread Christian MICHON
On 8/16/07, Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I mean the API. However in practice you'd probably want to try and share > the implementation as well. In short it's likely to need rewriting before > it's acceptable upstream. > > Paul > > P.S. Please don't top-post. Consider this your fin

Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-16 Thread Luke -Jr
On Thursday 16 August 2007, Paul Brook wrote: > If you really want to get it merged I suggest modifying kqemu to use the > kvm interface, augmenting the kvm interface if necessary. This sounds like the way to go.

Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-16 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 05:01:42PM +0200, Jernej Simon?i? wrote: > On Thursday, August 16, 2007, 15:49:14, Paul Brook wrote: > > > Mainly because the kernel already has one perfectly good virtualization > > interface. > > Weren't both Xen and lguest recently merged to the (upcoming) 2.6.23 > kern

Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-16 Thread Jernej Simonèiè
On Thursday, August 16, 2007, 15:49:14, Paul Brook wrote: > Mainly because the kernel already has one perfectly good virtualization > interface. Weren't both Xen and lguest recently merged to the (upcoming) 2.6.23 kernel? -- < Jernej Simonèiè ><><><><>< http://deepthought.ena.si/ > If it looks

Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-16 Thread Bill C. Riemers
dragoran wrote: > Bill C. Riemers wrote: >> You don't need to compile kqemu into the kernel. When I install >> dkms-kqemu from freshrpms, I do NOT rebuild my kernel. I am fairly >> certain with Fedora's new policy for extras, there would not be much >> of a problem getting it added to Fedora. Fo

Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-16 Thread Paul Brook
> > Mainly because the kernel already has one perfectly good virtualization > > interface. There's very little motivation to add another incompatible > > one, especially when the implementation is known to be fundamentally > > flawed, and probably insecure. > > > > If you really want to get it merg

Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-16 Thread Leonardo Reiter
Are you referring to the API when you say interface, or the functionality itself? If the former that's a reasonable argument, but the latter is not valid since KVM requires a VT or AMD-V-capable processor, right? KQEMU does not, and therefore [today] works on a much larger installed base of hardw

Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-16 Thread Paul Brook
On Thursday 16 August 2007, dragoran wrote: > Bill C. Riemers wrote: > > You don't need to compile kqemu into the kernel. When I install > > dkms-kqemu from freshrpms, I do NOT rebuild my kernel. I am fairly > > certain with Fedora's new policy for extras, there would not be much > > of a problem

Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-16 Thread dragoran
Bill C. Riemers wrote: You don't need to compile kqemu into the kernel. When I install dkms-kqemu from freshrpms, I do NOT rebuild my kernel. I am fairly certain with Fedora's new policy for extras, there would not be much of a problem getting it added to Fedora. For that matter, it could p

Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-16 Thread Bill C. Riemers
You don't need to compile kqemu into the kernel. When I install dkms-kqemu from freshrpms, I do NOT rebuild my kernel. I am fairly certain with Fedora's new policy for extras, there would not be much of a problem getting it added to Fedora. For that matter, it could probably get added into the n

Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-04 Thread dragoran
On 8/4/07, Ricardo Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I'm just a user... > > Is it planned to submit kqemu to lkml for inclusion into the mainline > > kernel? > > > Never seen anyone talking about this... > > if not why? > > > Maybe because KVM was included > (http://git.kernel.org/?p=li

Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-04 Thread Ricardo Almeida
Hi, I'm just a user... Is it planned to submit kqemu to lkml for inclusion into the mainline > kernel? Never seen anyone talking about this... if not why? Maybe because KVM was included ( http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6aa8b732ca01c3d7a54e93f4d701b

[Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

2007-08-04 Thread dragoran
Hello, Is it planned to submit kqemu to lkml for inclusion into the mainline kernel? if not why? if yes any idea when? is it possible to try to get it in 2.6.24 ?