Native Linux KVM tool v2

Posted Jun 15, 2011 17:07 UTC (Wed) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452)
Parent article: Native Linux KVM tool v2

I don't quite understand this -- it is a userspace tool, how are they going to merge that into 3.1 kernel?

Native Linux KVM tool v2

Posted Jun 15, 2011 17:10 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (2 responses)

I suspect it will go under tools/, right next to perf.

Native Linux KVM tool v2

Posted Jun 15, 2011 18:35 UTC (Wed) by PaXTeam (guest, #24616) [Link] (1 responses)

the announcement itself refers to tools/kvm so i guess that'll be the place.

Native Linux KVM tool v2

Posted Jun 16, 2011 12:27 UTC (Thu) by mingo (guest, #31122) [Link]

Correct, and note that tools/ is already hosting half a dozen utilities in the v3.0 kernel source:

$ ls -l tools/

drwxrwxr-x  2 mingo mingo 4096 2011-06-09 13:38 firewire
drwxrwxr-x 11 mingo mingo 4096 2011-06-16 13:26 perf
drwxrwxr-x  4 mingo mingo 4096 2011-05-30 10:23 power
drwxrwxr-x  2 mingo mingo 4096 2011-06-16 09:27 slub
drwxrwxr-x  3 mingo mingo 4096 2011-06-16 09:27 testing
drwxrwxr-x  2 mingo mingo 4096 2011-06-16 09:27 usb
drwxrwxr-x  4 mingo mingo 4096 2011-06-16 09:38 virtio

Native Linux KVM tool v2

Posted Jun 15, 2011 21:44 UTC (Wed) by aliguori (subscriber, #30636) [Link] (1 responses)

Ingo has made it pretty clear that he wants to move a bunch of userspace packages/tools into the kernel. There was an LWN article about a thread along these lines but the closest I can find at the moment is http://lwn.net/Articles/437114/

Native Linux KVM tool v2

Posted Jul 12, 2011 18:52 UTC (Tue) by Auders (guest, #53318) [Link]

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You mean the kernel tree. Calling it the kernel was what confused the OP.
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