Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project

[Javier Guerra Giraldez]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 06:39:58PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> So, two users can't have a guest named MyGuest each? ÂWhat about
>> namespace support? ÂThere's a lot of work in virtualizing all kernel
>> namespaces, you're adding to that.
>
> This enumeration is a very small and non-intrusive feature. Making it
> aware of namespaces is easy too.

an outsider's comment: this path leads to a filesystem... which could
be a very nice idea.  it could have a directory for each VM, with
pseudo-files with all the guest's status, and even the memory it's
using.  perf could simply watch those files.   in fact, such a
filesystem could be the main userleve/kernel interface.

but i'm sure such a layour was considered (and rejected) very early in
the KVM design.  i don't think there's anything new to make it more
desirable than it was back then.


-- 
Javier
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