Hi Ashley, That's great news! I'm glad that the LDM software will be open sourced. Does this include the ALOM CMT firmware or the hypervisor component for it? I fully support the creation of a community just for LDom's. While it would be nice to have one virtualization community, I'm not sure of how that would work considering the differences between LDoms and say containers or Xen. Perhaps if the way the communities are organized were changed, then they could be under folders or topics?
In any case, I give a big +1 to this community proposal. Especially since I've been working with and writing about LDom's, I can help out a lot with the community. --- Ashley Saulsbury <ashley.saulsbury at sun.com> wrote: > 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. > > > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Systems Engineer http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/sysadmin/ http://unixconsole.blogspot.com unixconsole at yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/
