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> On 1 Sep 2021, at 12:05, David Gibson <kata-dev at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> 
> 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.

If govmm is a bad hypervisor abstraction, but we have a slightly better one in Kata
(i.e. hypervisor.go and the various hypervisor back-ends), then maybe we should
rather turn govmm into the hypervisor abstraction it was supposed to be.

But that's clearly more complicated.

> 
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