On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 04:23:51PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > On 06/09/2013 12:31 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:15:00PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > >>I should also add that I will shortly send patches for the kvm tool > >>required to drive this VM as well as a small set of patches that > >>create a para-virtualized MIPS/Linux guest kernel. > >> > >>The idea is that because there is no standard SMP linux system, we > >>create a standard para-virtualized system that uses a handful of > >>hypercalls, but mostly just uses virtio devices. It has no emulated > >>real hardware (no 8250 UART, no emulated legacy anything...) > >> > >Virtualization is useful for running legacy code. Why dismiss support > >for non pv guests so easily? > > Just because we create standard PV system devices, doesn't preclude > emulating real hardware. In fact Sanjay Lal's work includes QEMU > support for doing just this for a MIPS malta board. I just wanted a > very simple system I could implement with the kvm tool in a couple > of days, so that is what I initially did. > That makes sense. From your wording I misunderstood that there is something in proposed patches that requires PV to run a guest. -- Gleb.
