| Speakers | |
|---|---|
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Sasha Levin |
| Schedule | |
| Day | Saturday |
| Room | Janson |
| Capacity | 1400 |
| Start time | 17:00 |
| End time | 17:50 |
| Duration | 00:50 |
| Info | |
| Track | Hypervisors Track |
| Attachments | |
| KVM Forum 2011 Presentation (slides) | |
Native KVM Tool
The goal of the Native Linux KVM Tool is to provide a clean, from-scratch, lightweight KVM host tool implementation that can boot Linux guest images with no BIOS dependencies and with only the minimal amount of legacy device emulation.
The Native KVM tool was started as a response to Ingo Molnar's proposal about a userspace tool which would sit under the /tools/ directory in the kernel tree and be the usermode counterpart of the kernel side KVM (the mail & related thread can be found at thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/962051/focus=962620 )
Biggest features of the tool are: - Zero-config userspace networking for guests that have DHCP enabled - SMP support - No external BIOS required - Experimental GUI support with SDL and VNC - Host filesystem access via 9P/virtio - Raw image support - Host block devices as in-memory copy-on-write guest images on 64-bit hosts - PPC64 Support - Experimental QCOW2 image support
The tool was developed over the course of almost two years, and is now in a stage where it is ready for merging into the kernel tree.