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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 03/22/2010 07:27 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >
> > It's kinda funny to see people argue that having an external repository is 
> > not a problem and that it's not a big deal if building something from the 
> > repository is slightly painful as long as it doesn't require a PhD when we 
> > have _real world_ experience that it _does_ limit developer base in some 
> > cases. Whether or not that applies to kvm remains to be seen but I've yet 
> > to see a convincing argument why it doesn't.
> 
> qemu has non-Linux developers.  Not all of their contributions are relevant 
> to kvm but some are.  If we pull qemu into tools/kvm, we lose them.

Qemu had very few developers before KVM made use of it - i know it because i 
followed the project prior KVM.

So whatever development activitity Qemu has today, it's 99% [WAG] attributable 
to KVM. It might have non-Linux contributors, but they wouldnt be there if it 
wasnt for all the Linux contributors ...

Furthermore, those contributors wouldnt have to leave - they could simply use 
a different Git URI ...

	Ingo
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