Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:31:12 +0300 | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Add a Kconfig shortcut for a kvm-bootable kernel |
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Hello,
On 4/12/13 9:19 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > so I'm currently experimenting with my randconfig build scripts and > thought that maybe it would be a cool thing to not only do the random > builds only but also boot-test them in kvm. Which reminded me that we > have that KVMTOOL_TEST_ENABLE config option in the kvmtool with which we > can select all the stuff needed to boot the kernel in kvm. > > So I copied it. I now have an all.config in the repo with > CONFIG_KVM_TEST_ENABLE=y in it so that the random builds can have the > required support. > > So what do people think? > > It is pretty helpful for such testing; AFAICT Fengguang is doing his > testing with kvm so he probably could use it too. And regardless, there > are more and more reasons to boot the kernel in kvm so having a single > option which selects the needed support makes more sense with time. > > And I haven't picked up the 'make kvmconfig' functionality because it > is not strictly needed (yet) but it wouldn't hurt if we took it because > someone has a good reason for needing it.
I obviously support having something like this in mainline. I wonder though if we could just call this "default standalone KVM guest config" instead of emphasizing testing angle.
Pekka
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