Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] remove uml code from nova tree

2017-09-06 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2017-09-06 13:35:09 -0400 (-0400), Sean Dague wrote: [...] > I think this classifies as the kind of thing we can straight remove, and > it will simplify a few things if we do. As someone who maintained very large UML deployments for many years (not via nova), I can't personally imagine anyone

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] remove uml code from nova tree

2017-09-06 Thread Jay Pipes
Yes, please. On 09/06/2017 01:35 PM, Sean Dague wrote: As some of the libvirt refactorings have hit recently, especially around privsep, one bit of cruft is UML (user mode linux) support. For people that do not yet have gray hairs, this was the earliest form of upstream "virtualization" that

[openstack-dev] [nova] remove uml code from nova tree

2017-09-06 Thread Sean Dague
As some of the libvirt refactorings have hit recently, especially around privsep, one bit of cruft is UML (user mode linux) support. For people that do not yet have gray hairs, this was the earliest form of upstream "virtualization" that Linux had. Allowed you to run a kernel as a user process