On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:49:00PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 19.11.2015 um 15:37 schrieb Colin Walters: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015, at 02:53 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > > > >> Erm, I don't want this in the kernel. That's why I've proposed the lklfuse approach. > > > > I already said this before but just to repeat, since I'm confused: > > > > How would "lklfuse" be different from http://libguestfs.org/ > > which we at Red Hat (and a number of other organizations) > > use quite widely now for build systems, debugging etc. > > Currently libguestfs has a rather huge overhead because it > boots a full virtual machine and hence a lot of communication > is needed. > With LKL you can use Linux as Library and link it to fuse. > AFAIK Richard added already a LKL backend to libguestfs. :-) Right. For the longer story, see: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/11/07/linux-kernel-library-backend-for-libguestfs/#content Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
