Re: [Qemu-devel] Luvalley-2 released: enable Qemu to utilize hardware virtualization extensions on arbitrary operating system

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:11:51AM +0800, Xiaodong Yi wrote:
> Luvalley is a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) with the architecture
> somewhat like Xen. It runs below the operating system, and depends on
> Qemu to run multiple virtualized operating systems. Luvalley has the
> following distinguished features:
> 
>  * In theory, any operating system, e.g., Linux, Windows, BSD, etc.,
> could run on top of Luvalley to serve as its scheduler, memory
> manager and physical device driver provider. Luvalley needs no
> modification on such OS. Moreover, Luvalley takes over no hardware and
> device other than CPU and MMU. So it has rather good hardware
> compatibility.
> 
>  * Excellent cooperation with Qemu. Luvalley and Qemu could benefit
> each other. Qemu provides Luvalley an excellent virtual IO device
> emulator to run multiple virtualized operating systems simultaneously.
> And Luvalley enables Qemu to utilize hardware virtualization
> extensions on arbitrary operating system.
> 
> If you are interested in Luvalley project, you may download Luvalley's
> source codes from
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/luvalley/
> 
> This release (i.e., luvalley-2) updated Qemu in both Linux and
> Windows. So the limitations of the previous release (i.e., luvalley-1)
> have been partially eliminated. For example, the Qemu in Windows
> allows to create disk images and install gueest operating systems.
> 
> This release has 4 tarballs:
> 
>  * luvalley-2.tgz: this is the source codes of the kernel part of
> Luvalley, which should be compiled in Linux. It is running below any
> operating system to provide virtualization extension for Intel's
> X86/32 computers. See the README file of the tarball for how to
> compile and run Luvalley.
> 
>  * qemu-linux.tgz: this is the source codes of the modified Qemu for
> running virtualized guest OSs in Linux. It is derived from Qemu of
> KVM-83. See the README file of the tarball for how to compile and run.
> 
>  * qemu-windows.tgz: this is the source codes of the modified Qemu for
> running virtualized guest OSs in Windows. It is derived from
> Qemu-0.10.2. See the README file of the tarball for how to build and
> run.
> 
>  * WindowsXP-Bins.rar: this is the pre-compiled binaries for running
> in Windows XP. It should be uncompressed in Windows XP operating
> system with WinRAR or other programs that supports .rar format. See
> the README file of the package for how to install and run in Windows
> XP.

You really should put some kind of version or date into your filenames.
It is very annoying later to try and figure out which version of a file
you have when the name is always the same.

-- 
Len Sorensen