Re: [GIT PULL] Add KVM support for Book3s_64 (PPC64) hosts v3

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On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 15:40 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 18:30 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > KVM for PowerPC only supports embedded cores at the moment.
> > 
> > While it makes sense to virtualize on small machines, it's even more fun
> > to do so on big boxes. So I figured we need KVM for PowerPC64 as well.
> > 
> > This patchset implements KVM support for Book3s_64 hosts and guest support
> > for Book3s_64 and G3/G4.
> > 
> > To really make use of this, you will also need a modified version of qemu
> > that can deal with KVM on desktop cores. I will send out patches for those
> > later, but want to get feedback on the kernel side first.
> > 
> > In the meanwhile, use the qemu version from
> > http://www.powerkvm.org/powerkvm.git which already includes all required
> > patches to run G3/G4 and G5 guests.
> 
> The git pull request is good when the series is good to pull or for
> testing, but for review patches are nice :-)

Yeah, I actually went looking for the v3 patchset last week, and gave up
trying to extract it from git...

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center

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