Re: [Mac-on-linux-devel] KVM PV framework

[Leslie V. <les...@gm...>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Alexander Graf <ag...@su...> wrote:
> Howdy,
> I just added a bunch of code for MOL on KVM for PPC that enables you to use
> the new PV framework. It basically creates a shared page between guest and
> host to expose register on the fly without changing context. I also added
> some code for dirty bitmap checking, so graphic updates are faster now.
> In general, I'm pretty happy with the results. I can now use MOL with KVM on
> my G4 and it's actually usable :). In terms of speed comparison with the old
> MOL kernel module we're about 60% as fast. But since this is all WIP and
> actually works on G5s and with Linux guests, I find that pretty fast :).
> Make sure to use the latest git checkout of my kernel patches for this to
> work:
>   git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6.git kvm-ppc-next


Wow, awesome!