Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Sun Apr 03 2011 - 06:32:23 EST


Hi Avi,

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It's definitely not a toy, it's my main virtualization tool of choice
>> for kernel development! ;-)
>>
>> The features you mention are crucial for servers but not for desktop.
>> I personally don't have much need for managing and live-migrating
>> Windows guests but if someone is interested in working on that, we're
>> happy to take patches!
>
> Well, I'd say you do need generic guest support for desktop (but not the
> other stuff I mentioned).  Are you planning to add a real GUI?

Yes, we'll hopefully add GUI at some point.

Generic guest support would be cool but like I said, I personally
don't need it because I'm mostly interested in running Linux guests.
Windows is totally uninteresting and I'm hoping we can get away with
virtio drivers for other FOSS kernels.

Pekka
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