From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:07:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:07:42 -0400 Received: from amadeus.resilience.com ([209.245.157.29]:11619 "HELO jmcmullan") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:07:31 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 14:52:00 -0400 From: Jason McMullan To: Rik van Riel Cc: Jason McMullan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What are the VM motivations?? Message-ID: <20010624145200.A14534@jmcmullan.resilience.com> In-Reply-To: <20010624140114.A10745@jmcmullan.resilience.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:26:13PM -0300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:26:13PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Jason McMullan wrote: > > Uhh. That's not what I was ranting about. What I was > > ranting about is that we have never 'put to paper' the > > requirements ('motiviations') for a good VM, nor have we > > looked at said nonexistent list and figured out what instrumentation > > would be needed. > > But we have. The fact that you missed the event doesn't > make it any less true. Excellent! Where can I find this? I would be most interested in what your considerations for a good VM are. (It'd probably be a good thing to reference people to when they start arguing off-the-cuff about VMs, eh?) -- Jason McMullan, Senior Linux Consultant Linuxcare, Inc. 412.432.6457 tel, 412.656.3519 cell jmcmullan@linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Putting open source to work.