Dear OpenSolaris Governing Board members:
Please see the LDoms community proposal below. Greatly appreciate your
support to help start the community soon.
Thanks,
Honglin
<LDoms Community Proposal>
1) Goals
The LDoms OpenSolaris community is intended to focus specifically on
the OpenSolaris side of the LDoms project. It's aim is to leverage
Solaris as the ultimate infrastructure OS for LDoms deployment. People
interested in the hypervisor should join the hypervisor mailing lists
hosted by the opensparc.net.
2) Technical Scopes
Logical Domains, or LDoms, is Sun's new server virtualization and
partitioning technology for CoolThreads(TM) servers. Supported in all
Sun servers which utilize UltraSPARC T1 and future CMT processors
developed by Sun, a logical domain is a full virtual machine that runs
an independent operating system instance and contains virtualized CPU,
memory, storage, console, and cryptographic devices.
Within the logical domains architecture, the hypervisor is a small
firmware layer that provides a stable, virtualized machine architecture
to which an operating system can be written. As such, each logical
domain is completely isolated and the maximum number of virtual machines
created on a single platform relies upon the capabilities of the
hypervisor as opposed to the number of physical hardware devices
installed in the system.
3) Potential Participants
* Customers who have deployed LDoms
* SE and Ambassador (OS, TS, DC) community
* Engineering
4) Leaders / Volunteers
* Alexandre Chartre
* John Falkenthal
* Karen Hackett
* Liam Merwick
* Joerg Moellenkamp
* Martin Mueller
* Asa Romberger
* Ashley Saulsbury
* Jeffrey Savit
* Eric Sharakan
* Tony Shoumack
* Honglin Su
* Steffen Weiberle
5) Activities
* Discussing technology
* Developing the best practices
* Collaborating and leveraging the work from the community such as
Common migration tool (P2V - Physical to Virtual, V2V, V2P, etc.), open
source tool for virtualization management, etc.
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