On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 15:39 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > - /One/ _intelligent_ higher-level virtualization API/ABI. Xen's API is > > quite advanced on this front. > > At last! Some love! > > The Xen approach has always been to prefer high-level interfaces over > lower-level ones, so that guests can meaningfully participate in their > own virtualization. There are some necessarily low-level things, but > conceptually simple things like "create a new vcpu" should have simple > interfaces. There's no point in going to the effort of emulating a > whole pile of real hardware if Xen can present an interface which is a > close match to an existing high-level interface within the operating system. Once you are there, you are near the point where you created a virtual architecture, which could run on any real architecture which gets supported by a hypervisor backend. I'd love that :) I know it is tricky to combine this with the upcoming hardware virtualization support. But it's at least a worthwhile thought experiment. tglx _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
