On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 04:02:56PM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 09:38:21AM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > > > >> One more though: it is probably a good idea to introduce selftests for > >> /dev/mshv (similar to KVM's selftests in > >> /tools/testing/selftests/kvm). Selftests don't really need a stable ABI > >> as they live in the same linux.git and can be updated in the same patch > >> series which changes /dev/mshv behavior. Selftests are very useful for > >> checking there are no regressions, especially in the situation when > >> there's no publicly available userspace for /dev/mshv. > > > > I think this can wait until we merge the first implementation in tree. > > There are still a lot of moving parts. Our (currently limited) internal > > test cases need more cleaning up before they are ready. I certainly > > don't want to distract Nuno from getting the foundation right. > > > > I'm absolutely fine with this approach, selftests are a nice add-on, not > a requirement for the initial implementation. Also, to make them more > useful to mere mortals, a doc on how to run Linux as root Hyper-V > partition would come handy) Making this system easier for others to use and consume is on our radar. Currently you need Windows bootloader and a not-yet-released loader to load the hypervisor. We're making progress in bringing in GRUB. Needless to say there are technical and non-technical challenges for this work, so don't expect it to happen very soon. :-) Wei. > > -- > Vitaly >
