Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd

[Nick Devito]

That's what I was trying to say is that bochs/qemu/vmware are emulation
since they emulate x86 hardware, though I would see some good by
including Xen and User-mode Linux with the VPS Project, since that seems
fitting. Oh yeah, don't forget vmware-server, that's supposely supposed
to be used in virtualization enviroments (I personally haven't tried it,
but, it's on my todo list to play around with most virtualization
technology least once :)

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 22:38 +0200, Benedikt Böhm wrote:
> 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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