On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:06:13AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 06/29/2011 09:00 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 05:55:11PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <[email protected]> > >> > >> This is the generic family this OS belongs to, for example Linux, Windows, > >> Solaris, UNIX etc. > > >> @@ -35,6 +38,7 @@ > >> <short-id>openbsd4</short-id> > >> <name>OpenBSD 4</name> > >> <version>4.9</version> > >> + <family>UNIX</family> > >> <vendor>OpenBSD Project</vendor> > >> > >> <devices> > > > > Perhaps we should let BSD have a family of 'BSD' ? > > And if we do that, would we classify MacOS as BSD? > > Also, is MirBSD in the list of known OS yet? I have successfully > installed that BSD flavor in a VM in the past.
Eric's point above is a good one. What is "Family"? It sounds like it is the historical derivation of the OS, but that's not very useful except to Unix history geeks. How about what *kernel* does this run - ie. Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, Darwin(?), ... That would actually be a useful thing to know because it affects whether virtio drivers are available, whether we can run crash or virt-dmesg on it, and whether the hypervisor has been tested against it. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
