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 1FxlWb-00004t-42 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:05:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k64E3o6c005717; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 14:03:50 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 k64E0C47011376 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 14:00:13 GMT Received: by continental.nick125.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1B9C8C8C052; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 07:59:12 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd From: Nick Devito To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <623652d50607040411s4a7e5513pd4e37ac4b175abc0@mail.gmail.com> References: <1151948992.29593.23.camel@continental.nick125.com> <200607032148.11731.hollow@gentoo.org> <1151956582.29593.25.camel@continental.nick125.com> <200607032228.37612.hollow@gentoo.org> <623652d50607040411s4a7e5513pd4e37ac4b175abc0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:59:12 -0600 Message-Id: <1152021552.29593.43.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 k64E0C47011376 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k64E3o8S005717 X-Archives-Salt: 3241d5d7-1b74-44e0-b309-8f640de4a18a X-Archives-Hash: fca3780461db1fe4655a07ba816e1883 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. =20 On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 12:11 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 03/07/06, Benedikt B=F6hm wrote: > > On Monday 03 July 2006 21:56, Nick Devito wrote: > > > Okay, in that case, extend the vserver herd to include a larger ran= ge of > > > virtualization stuff, including Xen, Bochs, and so on. It just seem= s > > > more fitting to group those packages together. > > > > not really, bochs, qemu and vmware is emulation, merely used in virtu= alization > > environments >=20 > Qemu (with the kqemu module) and vmware both directly execute the > native bytecode. Bochs is the only real emulator. >=20 --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list