Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd

[Nick Devito <nick125@gmail.com>]

Okay, in that case, extend the vserver herd to include a larger range of
virtualization stuff, including Xen, Bochs, and so on. It just seems
more fitting to group those packages together.
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 21:48 +0200, Benedikt Böhm wrote:
> On Monday 03 July 2006 19:49, Nick Devito wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> the packages related to OS-level virtualization (OpenVZ, Linux-VServer) are 
> already in the vserver herd
> 
> >
> > Just a suggestion :)
> >
> > ~ Nick

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