2009/1/11 Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>:
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org