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From: Nick Devito <nick125@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:05:13
Message-Id: 1152021552.29593.43.camel@continental.nick125.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd by Chris Bainbridge
1 Yeah, to me, having those in the emulation category just
2 doesn't...."fit" there, but, that's just me. Maybe we could take xen,
3 vmware, qemu, and related packages out of app-emulation, and make a new
4 category, app-virtualization. That would seem to fit a bit better then
5 emulation.
6 On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 12:11 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
7 > On 03/07/06, Benedikt Böhm <hollow@g.o> wrote:
8 > > On Monday 03 July 2006 21:56, Nick Devito wrote:
9 > > > Okay, in that case, extend the vserver herd to include a larger range of
10 > > > virtualization stuff, including Xen, Bochs, and so on. It just seems
11 > > > more fitting to group those packages together.
12 > >
13 > > not really, bochs, qemu and vmware is emulation, merely used in virtualization
14 > > environments
15 >
16 > Qemu (with the kqemu module) and vmware both directly execute the
17 > native bytecode. Bochs is the only real emulator.
18 >
19
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>