[kata-dev] govmm/Kata integration, revisited
David Gibson
kata-dev at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Sep 1 10:05:45 UTC 2021
On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 11:43:59AM +0200, Christophe de Dinechin wrote:
> [resend with cut quote, original was held in moderation for being > 40K]
>
> > On 31 Aug 2021, at 12:31, David Gibson <kata-dev at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 09:23:04AM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> >> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 5:16 AM David Gibson
> >> <kata-dev at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 01:24:20PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> >>>> David,
> >>>>
> >
> >> Then we will have an one not small patch removing the govmm vendor.
> >
> > So, I'd be happy enough with this approach if we could incrementally
> > introduce the new interface then drop govmm once the new interface
> > covers everything.
> >
> > Unfortunately, that doesn't really work, because govmm owns the qmp
> > interface and the qemu command line, so we can't build a new interface
> > "bottom up".
>
> While we are at it, should we rename "govmm" to something that indicates
> it's really specific to qemu?
Fwiw, my draft PR simply calls it the "qemu" package in the imported copy.
> Or do we want to take the opposite route
> (which was evoked yesterday) to move to VMM the "hypervisor" abstraction
> that we have in Kata?
I'm not really sure what you're suggesting here.
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