On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On LinuxCon I had a nice chat with Linus on what he thinks kvm-tool > would be doing and what he expects from it. Basically he wants a > small and simple tool he and other developers can run to try out and > see if the kernel they just built actually works. > > Fortunately, Qemu can do that today already! The only piece that was > missing was the "simple" piece of the equation, so here is a script > that wraps around Qemu and executes a kernel you just built. > > If you do have KVM around and are not cross-compiling, it will use > KVM. But if you don't, you can still fall back to emulation mode and > at least check if your kernel still does what you expect. I only > implemented support for s390x and ppc there, but it's easily extensible > to more platforms, as Qemu can emulate (and virtualize) pretty much > any platform out there. > > If you don't have qemu installed, please do so before using this script. Your > distro should provide a package for it (might even call it "kvm"). If not, > just compile it from source - it's not hard! > > To quickly get going, just execute the following as user: > > $ ./Documentation/run-qemu.sh -r / -a init=/bin/bash > > This will drop you into a shell on your rootfs. > > Happy hacking! It's nice to see such an honest attempt at improving QEMU usability, Alexander! One comment: in my experience, having shell scripts under Documentation reduces the likelihood that people actually discover them so you might want to consider putting it under scripts or tools. 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