lguest? (was: Re: someone interested in packaging VirtualBox?)

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 20:05 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 24.02.2008 19:28, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> > [...]
> > Everyone, spit on your hands and let's do the package, it's highly
> > useful for people without KVM capable processors :)
> 
> That reminds me: Is there a reason why we don't have lguest userspace
> tools packaged in Fedora (or do we have them somewhere with a obscure
> package name and I've missed it?). That might be interesting as well for
> systems that don't have CPUs with Intel VT or AMD-V.

One problem with lguest is that it's lack of any kernel/userspace ABI
(by design) makes keeping any package of the "tool" in sync difficult at
best.  This is by design, though.

> /me also wonders what's the status of KVM-lite is

kvm-lite isn't really making any progress AFAIK.

Jeremy