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On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:59:12 -0600 |
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Nick Devito <nick125@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Yeah, to me, having those in the emulation category just |
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> doesn't...."fit" there, but, that's just me. Maybe we could take xen, |
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> vmware, qemu, and related packages out of app-emulation, and make a |
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> new category, app-virtualization. That would seem to fit a bit better |
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> then emulation. |
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Waste of time, subjective reasoning, and just causes too much |
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unnecessary disruption. |
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> On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 12:11 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
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> > On 03/07/06, Benedikt Böhm <hollow@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > On Monday 03 July 2006 21:56, Nick Devito wrote: |
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> > > > Okay, in that case, extend the vserver herd to include a larger |
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> > > > range of virtualization stuff, including Xen, Bochs, and so on. |
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> > > > It just seems more fitting to group those packages together. |
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> > > not really, bochs, qemu and vmware is emulation, merely used in |
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> > > virtualization environments |
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> > Qemu (with the kqemu module) and vmware both directly execute the |
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> > native bytecode. Bochs is the only real emulator. |
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For the record, Qemu is much more than virtualisation; indeed |
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virtualisation is just a small part of what Qemu can do. Emulation is |
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the main thing that Qemu does, for many targets on many hosts. |
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Kevin F. Quinn |
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