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 1FxVIU-0004ah-8V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:45:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k63KhRuV006006; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:43:27 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 k63Kcckg007199 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:38:38 GMT Received: (qmail 21364 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2006 22:38:37 +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 22:38:37 +0200 From: Benedikt =?iso-8859-1?q?B=F6hm?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:38:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <1151948992.29593.23.camel@continental.nick125.com> <1151956582.29593.25.camel@continental.nick125.com> <200607032228.37612.hollow@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200607032228.37612.hollow@gentoo.org> 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-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607032238.37439.hollow@gentoo.org> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k63Kcckg007199 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k63KhRwL006006 X-Archives-Salt: 6ad98b35-6e69-4bef-9b88-2030dae77a12 X-Archives-Hash: 3ab97833c016c3d3a6133a4cd4d8cc52 On Monday 03 July 2006 22:28, 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 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 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 increa= sing > > > > complexity of these packages (which means more problems, as usual= ), > > > > I'm suggesting that a Virtualization herd be formed to handle the= se > > > > packages. I was also going to suggest moving virtualization-relat= ed > > > > things out of app-emulation, since they don't quite fit the bill = of > > > > "emulation". Maybe QEMU, Bochs, and VMWare would fit, but, not qu= ite. > > > > 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-VSer= ver) > > > are already in the vserver herd > > > > > > > Just a suggestion :) > > > > > > > > ~ Nick --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list