From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FxSfW-0000Ux-Ee for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:57:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k63HtBwC032456; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 17:55:11 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k63HotJJ009267 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 17:50:56 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7AC86459B for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 17:50:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11503-09 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 17:50:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from continental.nick125.com (dsl093-220-003.abq1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.220.3]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5124964596 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 17:50:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by continental.nick125.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6E43FC8C052; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 11:49:52 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd From: Nick Devito To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:49:52 -0600 Message-Id: <1151948992.29593.23.camel@continental.nick125.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.233 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.031, BAYES_00=-2.599, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.2, FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.135] X-Spam-Score: -1.233 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 0fa0ac4d-b6a9-4b4b-9dd3-b8f918feabe8 X-Archives-Hash: 91b46969fac015e727d0ad68044fcdbe Looking at the number of virtualization-related packages (xen, openvz, and related packages) that are in portage, and the increasing complexity of these packages (which means more problems, as usual), I'm suggesting that a Virtualization herd be formed to handle these packages. I was also going to suggest moving virtualization-related things out of app-emulation, since they don't quite fit the bill of "emulation". Maybe QEMU, Bochs, and VMWare would fit, but, not quite. These are the packages that would be affected: * Xen/Xen-tools * QEMU * OpenVZ * Bochs * VMWare (workstation, server, etc) * User-mode Linux ..and the list goes on... Just a suggestion :) ~ Nick -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list