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

[Olivier Galibert]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:01:51PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/21/2010 09:17 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >Adding any new daemon to an existing guest is a deployment and usability
> >nightmare.
> >   
> 
> The logical conclusion of that is that everything should be built into 
> the kernel.  Where a failure brings the system down or worse.  Where you 
> have to bear the memory footprint whether you ever use the functionality 
> or not.  Where to update the functionality you need to deploy a new 
> kernel (possibly introducing unrelated bugs) and reboot.
> 
> If userspace daemons are such a deployment and usability nightmare, 
> maybe we should fix that instead.

Which userspace?  Deploying *anything* in the guest can be a
nightmare, including paravirt drivers if you don't have a natively
supported in the OS virtual hardware backoff.  Deploying things in the
host OTOH is business as usual.

And you're smart enough to know that.

  OG.
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