Hi Alexander, On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> So i wanted to have a lightweight tool that allows me to test KVM and >> tools/kvm/ does that very nicely: i type './kvm run' and i can test a >> native bzImage (which has some virtualization options enabled as >> well) on the _host_ distro i am running, booting to a text shell >> prompt. > > I do that all the time. > > $ qemu-kvm -nographic -kernel arch/x86/boot/bzImage -append console=ttyS0 > > does the exact same thing. If that's too much typing for you, make it a bash alias. You know, they said the same thing about oprofile. All you needed to do was to write few simple shell scripts to make it work. One of the key features of tools/kvm is 'as little configuration as possible' and I can assure you that bash alias is really not a solution for that. [ Yes, yes, I know people apparently use virtio-manager for lauching Qemu so they don't need to figure out the setup themselves. But now you have *three* separate components (KVM, Qemu, virtio-manager) which is a completely different direction we're taking. Hell, we even went ahead and wrote our own mini-BIOS just to keep things in one unified tree. ] Pekka -- 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