Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd

[Nick Devito <nick125@gmail.com>]

Yeah, to me, having those in the emulation category just
doesn't...."fit" there, but, that's just me. Maybe we could take xen,
vmware, qemu, and related packages out of app-emulation, and make a new
category, app-virtualization. That would seem to fit a bit better then
emulation.  
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 12:11 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> On 03/07/06, Benedikt Böhm <hollow@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Monday 03 July 2006 21:56, Nick Devito wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > not really, bochs, qemu and vmware is emulation, merely used in virtualization
> > environments
> 
> Qemu (with the kqemu module) and vmware both directly execute the
> native bytecode. Bochs is the only real emulator.
> 

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