Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool v2

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Thu Jun 16 2011 - 10:30:13 EST


On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 06:53:34PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Weâre proud to announce the second version of the Native Linux KVM tool! Weâre
> now officially aiming for merging to mainline in 3.1.
>
> Highlights:
>
> - Experimental GUI support using SDL and VNC
>
> - SMP support. tools/kvm/ now has a highly scalable, largely lockless driver
> interface and the individual drivers are using finegrained locks.
>
> - TAP-based virtio networking

Wanted to ask for a while: would it make sense to use vhost-net?
Or maybe use that exclusively?
Less hypervisor code to support would help the focus.

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