Neal Becker wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:00:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:01:06PM +1000, Chris Jones wrote: >> > >> > > I agree. As virtualization technology becomes more and more involved >> > > and frequent on users systems, particularly with advanced Linux users, >> > > I think there needs to be a strong focus on ensuring that all releases >> > > run in virtualized environments without any major issues. ie. >> > > Virtualbox. >> > > >> > > Perhaps a dedicated team among the developers who specialize in this >> > > area. >> > >> > I don't think there are any developers working on this area, where "this >> > area" is Virtualbox. We don't ship Virtualbox. We don't ship a kernel >> > that has any knowledge of Virtualbox. There's a good argument for having >> > this be part of the QA process and requiring that we boot in the common >> > virtualisation environments as part of the release criteria, but I don't >> > think we can realistically suggest that our virtualisation developers >> > (who work on code that has nothing to do with Virtualbox) be responsible >> > for that. >> >> I'm curious why virtualbox has gained so much inertia so quickly. >> Based solely on the number of kernel bug reports we get that seem to be >> related to it, I have almost zero confidence in it being reliable. >> >> Why are people choosing it over other solutions, and what can we change >> in qemu/kvm to get users using that instead ? >> >> Dave >> > > 1. Easy setup of networking (bridged). Just to followup, to setup bridged net on kvm I need to reboot my server. That's a non-starter.
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