On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:01:51PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 03/21/2010 09:17 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > >Adding any new daemon to an existing guest is a deployment and usability > >nightmare. > > > > The logical conclusion of that is that everything should be built into > the kernel. Where a failure brings the system down or worse. Where you > have to bear the memory footprint whether you ever use the functionality > or not. Where to update the functionality you need to deploy a new > kernel (possibly introducing unrelated bugs) and reboot. > > If userspace daemons are such a deployment and usability nightmare, > maybe we should fix that instead. Which userspace? Deploying *anything* in the guest can be a nightmare, including paravirt drivers if you don't have a natively supported in the OS virtual hardware backoff. Deploying things in the host OTOH is business as usual. And you're smart enough to know that. OG. -- 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
