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 1FxUVh-0001lz-20 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:55:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k63JqPL1014698; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 19:52:25 GMT Received: from mail.croup.de (galatea.croup.de [85.10.237.58]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k63JmClM027321 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 19:48:12 GMT Received: (qmail 20721 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2006 21:48:12 +0200 Received: from home.xnull.de (HELO zeus.home.xnull.de) (bb@croup.de@82.135.28.84) by galatea.croup.de with ESMTPA; 3 Jul 2006 21:48:12 +0200 From: Benedikt =?iso-8859-15?q?B=F6hm?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:48:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <1151948992.29593.23.camel@continental.nick125.com> In-Reply-To: <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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607032148.11731.hollow@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: be3a2e1e-2cfd-4e38-9f84-fb38121b3d23 X-Archives-Hash: a822a71fc7ac83d9a2ab849d4b063227 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list