someone interested in packaging VirtualBox?
Gianluca Sforna
giallu at gmail.com
Sun Feb 24 15:45:07 UTC 2008
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > what do you exactly mean with "too ugly to live"? Is it that fragile bad
> > code or does it just not fit the kernel styling guidelines?
>
> In terms of accessing hardware virt capabilities, there is already a generic
> kernel module to expose hardware virtualization driver to userspace apps - it
> is called KVM. If virtualbox needs access to hardware virt them it should
> use this existing driver.
>
>
> > And if the quality is just not good enough to get into fedora, what
> > efforts would be needed to fix that?
>
> It should use the KVM module driver, and if the current functionality in
> KVM is not sufficient then VirtualBox should work with upstream to address
> the limitations. Having multiple kernel modules for virtualization does
> not help anyone.
>
Are Xen guys aware of this?
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