Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Rob OpenSuSE <rob.opensuse.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/1/11 Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>:
> 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?   It's not clear to me what "targeted
for this use" means in this context.

When I last looked at this (over a year ago), I actually found it
simpler to use a Debian install, and Virtual Box for example, liked HZ
to be 100, rather than 250 or 1,000.  There may have been a few other
tweaks. Since then it's become easier to have a minimal openSUSE
install, but also to make a 'spin' of openSUSE that would be tailored
to a virtual environment.

Perhaps this would be a good area of a 'contrib' project, like the
11.1 KDE 3 LIve CD and USB.
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