On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 12:47:41PM +0200, Alexander Baldeck wrote:
Hey all,
some of you may have noticed that we have a couple of feature requests on flyspray [1] [2] regarding a new KVM and paravirtualization. I've been messing with KVM on Linuxtag. So far it works well but there's a few issues with it:
1) makes no sense to port to non-x86_64 - i686 has kqemu - the kqemu on x86_64 is pretty much useless btw - I have never heard of a 32bit CPU that actually supports this - correct me if I'm wrong
what about a capable 64bit processor running a 32 bit distro? Like the core 2 duos, pentium D 9x0..?
2) it comes with a modified version of Qemu that only provides qemu-system-$CARCH and thus conflicts with qemu itself - merge with qemu package? - strip qemu-system-$CARCH off of qemu package?
could also rename the binary, otherwise, if you're using kvm, then you probably wont mind if you dont have stock qemu, so a conflicts should be fine?
3) KVM modules in our kernel26 are very outdated and should be removed in favor of the ones provided by the KVM source tarball
or would it be better to patch the kernel with the new one?
4) split KVM into kvm-qemu & kvm-modules?
definitely split the modules off if they must be seperated from the kernel. James