On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > I am about to add the qemu-kvm package to the book. I will also add a > page "Running a Virtual Machine (VM)". > > The question is where to put these in the book? About the only place I > can see is > > V. Servers > 19. Major Servers > > but this doesn't really seem to fit. > > I could rename the part to: > > V. Servers and Virtualization > > but that doesn't feel right either. > > I could insert a new part: > > VI. Virtualization > > But that seems overkill for one package (two pages). > > Perhaps a new Chapter in > > II. Post LFS Configuration and Extra Software > ... > 8. Virtualization > > Of course, inserting a chapter renumbers all chapters afterward. I > don't think that is a huge deal, but others might. > > Thoughts? > > -- Bruce > --
Qemu, allows you to run a virtualized environment on your computer. It has the Option to run it as a Server (detaches from the commandline), and the option to give you a GUI, or run a vnc server (or none, possibly *shrug*) This means it's technically not entirely a Server (chapter 19/22, Major Servers/Other Server Software), or a Xorg application (chapter 38). A virtualization category would not be that bad of an idea... depending how far we want to go with it. You are adding qemu, of course xen, and virtualbox could also be addressed. Going farther, (in thing I doubt will be added to BLFS, but would fit this potential category) I know wine is quite popular with a lot of folks... but would be a pain with our current LFS. (Requires 32bit). Dosbox is probably quite popular as well. that's a simple cmmi. [offtopic: wine] Very useful piece of software myself. I used to run the occassional game, and currently using it to run wix for creating .msi files. But it requires 32bit linux support (My own personal system is multilib). I believe the main reason we do not multilib LFS, is because there is only minimal opensource software that needs 32bit linux. The other use case would be precompiled or close source software, which is outside LFS's scope. Wine itself, I can see two other uses. Running closed source software, or open source software not avaliable on linux [latter is probably another niche market]. Basically, would be neat to see on BLFS, but probably does not belong. Just using it as an example of what would fit under virtualization Another thought In our existing packaging, the closest would be Other X-based Software. Which makes me wonder, what about a general Application Category? With sub categories like Editors/WebBrowsers/e.t.c? [not sure if Editor, or Office would be better. GNUCash would be Office, but not an editor... yet I like the term editor better for everything else] GNUCase would be Application/Other or Application/Editor Gimp would be Application/Editor Firefox would be Application/WebBrowser Qemu, Application/Other? -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
