Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd

[Benedikt Böhm]

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

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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