On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 03:12:05PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:41:21PM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Myklebust, Trond <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> wrote:
We could at least make selection of a minimal set of drivers for the more common virtualised platforms a lot easier. Right now, you need to hunt through 30+ different menus in order to find what you need to run in a basic KVM virtual machine...
Yes, every time I build a kernel to be used on KVM I forget something. :-\
We could introduce a section in Kconfig which contains selections for common use cases. E.g. as Linus requested for minimal distro requirements but also selections for various common guest configurations.
+1.
Same experience with building a kvm kernel so I couldn't agree more.
We have "make kvmconfig" in the KVM tool tree that pretty much does that automatically. There's nothing tools/kvm specific about it so I guess you could merge that separately.
Yup, "make kvmconfig" does things right but I guess a general mechanism might be preferred here :) Look, if (at the moment) I'm going to nconfig and virt. section, I see Virtualization Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support KVM for Intel processors support KVM for AMD processors support Audit KVM MMU Host kernel accelerator for virtio net (EXPERIMENTAL) and everytime I'm here I need to remember where to search for virtio devices I would like to include into config. Though I expect to see in this secrion everything related to virtualization and have a way to turn on virtio-ring and etc. For example to enable "PCI driver for virtio devices" I need to go to Device Drivers -> Virtio drivers, while I think it would be great to have everything virt. related in Virtualization section. (note, I know how to enable all this and where to lookup for this entries of course, but I guess for regular users it would be easier to enable various virt. features if they are gathered in one place) Cyrill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org