On Thu 08/23/07 at 09:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Liam Merwick writes: > > The LDoms community would be happy to be part of an umbrella Virtualization > > community involving the BrandZ, LDoms, Xen and Zones communities (or as > > projects - depending on what OS.o process is ultimately decided on). > > This isn't the rationale that was provided to the OGB. The rationale > provided looks more like this: > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-August/002239.html > > and this: > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-August/002250.html > > That is, LDoms are special. We were told rather directly that there > was no point in having a Virtualization community because there was > _NOTHING_ that could be shared between these projects -- no high level > management or coordination, no tools support, and no joint projects. > > If that's not true, then it certainly comes as news to me.
It's certainly not true. Representatives of all of these teams recently spent several days in a woefully overcrowded room hashing out exactly where these areas of overlap are. If anything, the zones project was the odd man out, since they virtualize at a different level of the stack than Xen and LDoms. Nils _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
