Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd

["Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:59:12 -0600
Nick Devito <nick125@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.  

Waste of time, subjective reasoning, and just causes too much
unnecessary disruption.  

> 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.

For the record, Qemu is much more than virtualisation; indeed
virtualisation is just a small part of what Qemu can do. Emulation is
the main thing that Qemu does, for many targets on many hosts.

-- 
Kevin F. Quinn

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