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kvmtool may not be in the mainline kernel source tree, but that doesn't mean it's dead or that it's failed. It had no need to be in the kernel source tree in th
by pm215 11y ago
kvmtool may not be in the mainline kernel source tree, but that doesn't mean it's dead or that it's failed. It had no need to be in the kernel source tree in the first place -- it's a standalone userspace tool that uses the publicly documented and stable KVM syscalls and ioctls, exactly like QEMU. QEMU isn't in the kernel source tree either, and nobody's ever suggested that putting it there would be a good idea...
- justincormack 11y agoI wish its repo was not still a fork of the linux tree though. It is very hard to use. It made sense when it was going to be merged but not now.
- pm215 11y agoPutting it in a standalone repo has been proposed recently: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/13/116 https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/13/116 and the idea doesn't seem to have been rejected, at least.
- justincormack 11y agoAh thanks that repo seems to build anyway, will have a look.