[Lguest] coLinux merge to paravirt_ops ala lguest [was: Google Summer Of Code and lguest]

Henry henry-20071123 at arcor.de
Wed Mar 12 05:19:17 EST 2008


Hello Flo,

inflo wrote:
> lguest uses paravirt_ops, look at lguest_init in arch/x86/lguest/boot.c.
> The kernel does not needed to be patched for lguest, the code is still
> in the kernel, or what do you mean?
> 
>> > I'm plan to port coLinux kernel patch into the lguest code. So, we no
>> > longer need to patch the kernel directly and use the paravirt-ops
>> > instead.

I know. But, coLinux was burn long time before lguest was started, and
coLinux currently use kernel hacks to operate in similar ways as
hypercall of lguest does it.

It's time now, to joining into same code base. That's better, as working
on two separate code bases what does similar the same:
Paravirtualisation a Linux kernel.

-- 
Henry Nestler
http://www.colinux.org



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