On 7/20/07, Ashley Saulsbury <ashley.saulsbury at sun.com> wrote: > 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.
I had suspected this but the way that the LDoms software is not integrated with Solaris made me suspect that it was not coming any time soon. > For the moment we're agnostic about how to formulate a wider > virtualization community. I don't care a whole lot either. That being said, the name of the community group should not be "Virtualization". That term is also used by networking, storage, etc. to mean things that would likely not be part of that community. Perhaps "Server Virtualization", "Machine Virtualization", or "OS Virtualization" is more appropriate. > 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. Agreed. > 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 ? Or since there seems to be agreement that LDoms belong with others, create a Machine Virtualization community and have LDoms be the first project. As the clean-up happens either others can merge into this or all affected projects migrate into "Machine Virtualization 2". Or maybe not... :) Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
