Mike Gerdts wrote: > On 7/19/07, Octave Orgeron <unixconsole at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> LDOM's are very kewl, I've been testing and working with them for a >> while now. However, unless the source code for the LDM software and the >> firmware is going to be open sourced, it may not make a lot of sense to >> have an OpenSolaris community for it right now. Does anyone know if the >> LDM software or the ALOM CMT firmware is going to be open sourced? >> Otherwise, it makes it hard to do any development work or help direct >> the product. > > > +1 >
Hi Mike, Octave, Yes absolutely - we are going to open source the domain manager software! In fact, that was the reason behind Honglin's request for a LDoms community project as part of Open Solaris. Not only do we want the source published, but we *really* want to have people both inside *and* outside Sun participating in its development - and building an Open Solaris community is our preferred way to do this. For the moment we're agnostic about how to formulate a wider virtualization community. However, it would be a shame to gate the availability of the domain manager source code, and an open involvement in its development, on pulling the other Open Solaris virtualization projects into a single project. In the interest of furthing the most important goal (i.e. publishing and opening Sun's LDoms development), might we suggest starting with a LDoms community - if and how we address a coalescing of various projects into a single virtualization community can then proceed as a parallel discussion between those communities ? cheers, ash.
