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On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 22:28 +0200, Benedikt Böhm 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 range of |
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> > virtualization stuff, including Xen, Bochs, and so on. It just seems |
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> > more fitting to group those packages together. |
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> not really, bochs, qemu and vmware is emulation, merely used in virtualization |
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> environments |
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> uml and xen do run with VMMs and don't share anything with |
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> OpenVZ/Linux-VServer |
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> uml and xen could be integrated into the VPS project (with a different herd) |
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> but i don't know what their maintainers are thinking about this |
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UML is not complicated or hard to maintain. I'm fairly happy |
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maintaining it with the help of the kernel herd, and (being a linux |
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kernel port) I think it really belongs in kernel, not in virtualization |
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or vmm or vserver, or whatever. |
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Maybe if there were some projects for full virtual server setups that |
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could use xen or uml or vmware or ... as it's underlying hosting |
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service, that could be useful, but just for maintenance, I don't think |
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it's really necessary. |
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I'm open to arguments in favor of such a project, tho, if people have |
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real plans. Certainly, an easier way to generate and maintain root |
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filesystems for UML would be nice. |
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Daniel |
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