It makes perfect sense to have a virtualization community to drive the commonality. However, there are several areas in virtualization such as Hypervisor, OS, Storage, Networking, and so on.
Looking at the existing communities in OpenSolaris today, you'll find the following ones that are directly related to virtualization technologies: - Brandz - Desktop - Device Drivers - Networking - OS/Net (ON) - Solaris Volume Manager - Storage - Xen - ZFS - Zones Still some others may be relevant, but less specific: [0] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/#all Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 05:04:37PM -0700, Honglin Su wrote: > >> Please see the LDoms community proposal below. Greatly appreciate your >> support to help start the community soon. > >> 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. > > I could pick at nits like your emphasis on Solaris and Sun, but I > think there's a larger issue here. Given the generally positive > responses from the principals to the proposal that the Xen, BrandZ, > and Zones Community Groups merge[0], wouldn't these activities more > properly belong to a newly-created Virtualization Community Group? > There were several additional proposals made within that thread about > how the various virtualization efforts under way ought to be governed. > Have you reviewed those? If so, why do you believe a separate > Community Group is the best answer? > > [0] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-April/001420.html >
