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 1FxUgT-00084c-Rk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:06:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k63K3nvU010876; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:03:49 GMT Received: from continental.nick125.com (dsl093-220-003.abq1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.220.3]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k63JvH7e015181 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 19:57:17 GMT Received: by continental.nick125.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1D9D1C8C052; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 13:56:23 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd From: Nick Devito To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200607032148.11731.hollow@gentoo.org> References: <1151948992.29593.23.camel@continental.nick125.com> <200607032148.11731.hollow@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:56:22 -0600 Message-Id: <1151956582.29593.25.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-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k63JvH7e015181 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k63K3nxK010876 X-Archives-Salt: a81e1622-f98d-4423-887e-26c3e7a93a06 X-Archives-Hash: f516dbe7ae9f14846a9dfe5b28b826d4 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 B=F6hm 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 complex= ity > > of these packages (which means more problems, as usual), I'm suggesti= ng > > 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". Ma= ybe > > 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... >=20 > the packages related to OS-level virtualization (OpenVZ, Linux-VServer)= are=20 > already in the vserver herd >=20 > > > > Just a suggestion :) > > > > ~ Nick --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list