On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:07:25PM +0000, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2009/1/11 Marcus Meissner
: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 01:45:27AM -0500, Putrycz, Erik wrote:
The other thing would be, and this is a silly feature, why not have a kernel-vmware or kernel-virtualbox which only included the basic drivers which these virtual machines support, throws away the io schedulers (since on a virtual machine with a virtual disk, io reordering is completely pointless) and other framebuffer drivers etc.
This is a great idea, makes lots of sense.
The kernel-...-base packages are targeted for this use.
Do you mean there's a kernel in the kernel-base rpm, that is intented for virtualised environments?
Yes, it can be used that way. But note, it doesn't have the vmware drivers as they violate the GPL and can not be redistributed, and virtualbox drivers, well, let's just say some of us looked at that code, and ran away screaming :) But for KVM or Xen, this package should work. If not, please let us know. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org