Just for the record, I would give an use case example... For high performance virtualized environments, we're seeing new solutions popping out in the market, for example:
* Netmap / VALE (mSwitch). But, since Ubuntu ships VirtIO as a buil-in module, It is not possible to use/evaluate Netmap (VirtIO version) with it. This is a show stopping for Ubuntu in a high performance virt-env... While Debian is fine. Ubuntu Kernel Team should definitively make its "linux-image" more modular, there is no doubt about this. OpenStack for Telcos (NFV subject) will definitively need Netmap / VALE, or DPDK, for example... So, Ubuntu should not do things that breaks future development of high speed virtual environments. Think forward, Linux is modular. No need to compile modules as built-in. Just my two Bitcents... :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1475078 Title: VirtIO is built-in, make it modular... To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1475078/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
