Hi - On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 04:52:21PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > [...] > > Perhaps the fact that kvm happens to deal with an interesting application > > area (virtualization) is misleading here. As far as the host kernel or > > other host userspace is concerned, qemu is just some random unprivileged > > userspace program [...] > You are quite mistaken: KVM isnt really a 'random unprivileged > application' in this context, it is clearly an extension of > system/kernel services. I don't know what "extension of system/kernel services" means in this context, beyond something running on the system/kernel, like every other process. To clarify, to what extent do you consider your classification similarly clear for a host is running * multiple kvm instances run as unprivileged users * non-kvm OS simulators such as vmware or xen or gdb * kvm instances running something other than linux > ( Which can be seen from the simple fact that what started the > discussion was 'how do we get /proc/kallsyms from the > guest'. I.e. an extension of the existing host-space /proc/kallsyms > was desired. ) (Sorry, that smacks of circular reasoning.) It may be a charming convenience function for perf users to give them shortcuts for certain favoured configurations (kvm running freshest linux), but that says more about perf than kvm. - FChE -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
