That's what I was trying to say is that bochs/qemu/vmware are emulation since they emulate x86 hardware, though I would see some good by including Xen and User-mode Linux with the VPS Project, since that seems fitting. Oh yeah, don't forget vmware-server, that's supposely supposed to be used in virtualization enviroments (I personally haven't tried it, but, it's on my todo list to play around with most virtualization technology least once :)
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 22:38 +0200, Benedikt Böhm wrote: > On Monday 03 July 2006 22:28, Benedikt Böhm wrote: > > 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 > > s/merely/barely/ > > > > > 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 > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
