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joanna.
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Avi Kivity wrote:
1) Do you have any support for para-virtualized VMs?
Yes, for example, we support paravirtualized timers and mmu for Linux.
These are fairly minimal compared to Xen's pv domains.
Can I run a regular Linux as PV-guest? Specifically, can I get rid of
qemu totally,
Avi Kivity wrote:
On 12/07/2009 03:05 PM, Joanna Rutkowska wrote:
In particular, is
it possible to move the qemu from the host to one of the VMs? Perhaps to
have a separate copy of qemu for each VM? (ala Xen's stub-domains)
It should be fairly easy to place qemu in a guest. You would
Avi Kivity wrote:
On 12/07/2009 03:30 PM, Joanna Rutkowska wrote:
Avi Kivity wrote:
1) Do you have any support for para-virtualized VMs?
Yes, for example, we support paravirtualized timers and mmu for Linux.
These are fairly minimal compared to Xen's pv domains.
Can I
Anthony Liguori wrote:
Avi Kivity wrote:
No. Paravirtualization just augments the standard hardware interface,
it doesn't replace it as in Xen.
NB, unlike Xen, we can (and do) run qemu as non-root. Things like
RHEV-H and oVirt constrain the qemu process with SELinux.
On Xen you can get
Avi Kivity wrote:
On 12/07/2009 07:09 PM, Joanna Rutkowska wrote:
Also, you can use qemu to provide the backends to a Xen PV guest (see -M
xenpv). The effect is that you are moving that privileged code from the
kernel (netback/blkback) to userspace (qemu -M xenpv).
In general, KVM tends
Avi Kivity wrote:
On 12/07/2009 07:15 PM, Joanna Rutkowska wrote:
But the difference is that in case of Xen one can *easily* move the
backends to small unprivileged VMs. In that case it doesn't matter the
code is in kernel mode, it's still only in an unprivileged domain.
They're
Anthony Liguori wrote:
Joanna Rutkowska wrote:
Avi Kivity wrote:
On 12/07/2009 07:09 PM, Joanna Rutkowska wrote:
Also, you can use qemu to provide the backends to a Xen PV guest
(see -M
xenpv). The effect is that you are moving that privileged code
from the
kernel (netback/blkback
Anthony Liguori wrote:
Joanna Rutkowska wrote:
Anthony Liguori wrote:
Avi Kivity wrote:
No. Paravirtualization just augments the standard hardware interface,
it doesn't replace it as in Xen.
NB, unlike Xen, we can (and do) run qemu as non-root. Things like
RHEV-H and oVirt
