Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd

["Benedikt Böhm" <hollow@gentoo.org>]

On Monday 03 July 2006 22:28, Benedikt Böhm 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

s/merely/barely/

>
> uml and xen do run with VMMs and don't share anything with
> OpenVZ/Linux-VServer
>
> uml and xen could be integrated into the VPS project (with a different
> herd) but i don't know what their maintainers are thinking about this
>
> > 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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