Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Virtualization steps | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:45:49 -0700 |
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Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:19:59PM +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote: >> Eric, Herbert, >> >> I think it is quite clear, that without some agreement on all these >> virtualization issues, we won't be able to commit anything good to >> mainstream. My idea is to gather our efforts to get consensus on most >> clean parts of code first and commit them one by one. >> >> The proposal is quite simple. We have 4 parties in this conversation >> (maybe more?): IBM guys, OpenVZ, VServer and Eric Biederman. We >> discuss the areas which should be considered step by step. Send >> patches for each area, discuss, come to some agreement and all 4 >> parties Sign-Off the patch. After that it goes to Andrew/Linus. >> Worth trying? > > sounds good to me, as long as we do not consider > the patches 'final' atm .. because I think we should > try to test them with _all_ currently existing solutions > first ... we do not need to bother Andrew with stuff > which doesn't work for the existing and future 'users'. > > so IMHO, we should make a kernel branch (Eric or Sam > are probably willing to maintain that), which we keep > in-sync with mainline (not necessarily git, but at > least snapshot wise), where we put all the patches > we agree on, and each party should then adjust the > existing solution to this kernel, so we get some deep > testing in the process, and everybody can see if it > 'works' for him or not ...
ACK. A collection of patches that we can all agree on sounds like something worth aiming for.
It looks like Kirill last round of patches can form a nucleus for that. So far I have seem plenty of technical objects but no objections to the general direction.
So agreement appears possible.
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