[meta-virtualization] [PATCH 0/5] libvirt fixes and a kernel update

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Jonas Eriksson
<jonas.eriksson at enea.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 09:00:39 +0100 Jonas Eriksson wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 14:33:21 -0500 Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> > I've never been particularly concerned about the extra functionality that is
>> > introduced when meta-virt is added, since container support (and arguably
>> > lxc if you are doing "virtualization") is a fairly basic feature.
>>
>> I can see your concern, and it was something I weighed in when
>> adding lxc to DISTRO_FEATURES. My train of thought ended up
>> something like this:
>>
>> - The LXC kernel conf parameters has some performance impact
>>
>> - The Xen kernel conf parameters does too, and those are enabled
>>   through DISTRO_FEATURES
>>
>> - DISTRO_FEATURES it is
>
> So, a follow-up on this. It seems that there were some confusion
> around whether or not extra kernel configuration parameters where
> needed to run LXC. It turns out that the answer is no, and that
> the linux-yocto kernel by default has all the bells and whistles
> needed for LXC as it is. This of course means that the need for
> an extra *_FEATURES parameter simply disappeared.

Right you are. We've beefed it up by default in many cases .. if
they are common enough.

>
> Now the only question is why you did not yell at me for missing
> this fact, Bruce ;)

:) we'll queue up some karma :)

>
> I've now reposted the series without the offending patch.

The series looks good, if no one objects by tomorrow .. I can do the merge.

Bruce

>
> Thanks and sorry for the confusion,
> /Jonas



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