[clue-talk] Red Hat dumps XEN for KVM

Shawn Perry redmop924 at comcast.net
Mon Sep 21 17:38:24 MDT 2009


It's a small kernel module, alot of the rest is in userspace.  It's
really qemu with optimizations and a kernel module.

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:45 PM,  <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm not surprised by this.  Linus and others aren't happy with Xen because
> their code craps all over the kernel.  They want that fixed and a good API
> for Xen before it can become a standard part of the kernel.
>
> I don't know what KVM is like compared to Xen.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Subject: [clue-talk] Red Hat dumps XEN for KVM
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