* Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 03/22/2010 07:27 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:Qemu had very few developers before KVM made use of it - i know it because i
It's kinda funny to see people argue that having an external repository isqemu has non-Linux developers. Not all of their contributions are relevant
not a problem and that it's not a big deal if building something from the
repository is slightly painful as long as it doesn't require a PhD when we
have _real world_ experience that it _does_ limit developer base in some
cases. Whether or not that applies to kvm remains to be seen but I've yet
to see a convincing argument why it doesn't.
to kvm but some are. If we pull qemu into tools/kvm, we lose them.
followed the project prior KVM.
So whatever development activitity Qemu has today, it's 99% [WAG] attributable
to KVM. It might have non-Linux contributors, but they wouldnt be there if it
wasnt for all the Linux contributors ...
Furthermore, those contributors wouldnt have to leave - they could simply use
a different Git URI ...