Re: [kvm-devel] Hardware Appliance

2007-09-06 Thread Haydn Solomon
This is true Wes. The beauty of open source is that proprietary as well as open source products can be built around an open source project especially one such as kvm, and marketed. The nature of open source caters to this. The trend in the market for hypervisor appliances is probably going to be

Re: [kvm-devel] Hardware Appliance

2007-09-06 Thread Wes Felter
Haydn Solomon wrote: > I've been seeing a lot of news about embedded virtualization in servers > backed by companies like Dell, HP etc. I still think KVM is the right > approach to virtualization however what does this mean for KVM as far as > being a competitor in the hypervisor market? How di

Re: [kvm-devel] Hardware Appliance

2007-09-06 Thread Haydn Solomon
Yeah.. I was thinking along similar lines. I don't think it should be difficult to customize a scaled down linux with kvm. I'd like to see kvm compete along these lines too. On 9/6/07, Gildas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007/9/6, Haydn Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've been seeing a lot of

Re: [kvm-devel] Hardware Appliance

2007-09-06 Thread Gildas
2007/9/6, Haydn Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've been seeing a lot of news about embedded virtualization in servers > backed by companies like Dell, HP etc. I still think KVM is the right > approach to virtualization however what does this mean for KVM as far as > being a competitor in the hype

[kvm-devel] Hardware Appliance

2007-09-06 Thread Haydn Solomon
I've been seeing a lot of news about embedded virtualization in servers backed by companies like Dell, HP etc. I still think KVM is the right approach to virtualization however what does this mean for KVM as far as being a competitor in the hypervisor market? How difficult would it be for KVM to d