Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:59:00 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Kai Mosebach <xen@komadev.de> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finishing up the xen port - would funding help? Message-ID: <d763ac660908240659w7b1e2575g9ee4152e6b58df56@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <14889119.2221251120185215.JavaMail.root@zim.freshx.de> References: <d763ac660908220617h2d2a794ajb3a401d7402a4324@mail.gmail.com> <14889119.2221251120185215.JavaMail.root@zim.freshx.de>
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The best thing users can do is -tell- the FreeBSD foundation that they're interested in this and in what way they're interested. If you're a company that is or would like to be deploying FreeBSD on Xen, you should also do this. Adrian 2009/8/24 Kai Mosebach <xen@komadev.de>: > Hi, > > i guess a lot of us feel the same (mainly sadness) about the progress her= e and a lot of us have to feed penguins meanwhile... > > I personally think, that the virtualization technology in general is one = of the key technologies of tomorrow and therefore it makes me even more sad= , that FreeBSD fell back that much these days (years!). > > Therefore i ask myself whether this should be a major project in general = and maybe the best way to push it (along with all the administrative and lo= ngterm problem) might be to get support from the FreeBSD Foundation, which = successfully enabled Java for BSD some months ago (another key technology a= s i think). Otherwise it is very unprobably (in my eyes) that the little da= emon ever will be playing in the ongoing cloud game and everything behind, = which IS and WOULD BE a shame! > > Maybe some of the core ppl can raise awareness here? > > Best Kai > > > ----- "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org> schrieb: > >> Including me, as a developer. >> >> >> >> adrian >> >> 2009/8/22 Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>: >> >> 2) Individual monetary contributions cannot be by default handled >> by >> >> some proxy person (without much legal footwork); they will need to >> go >> >> directly from the source to the developer. >> > >> > a number of us have legal business fronts that could be used in >> > pass-through mode. =A0let's not worry about administrivia. >> > >> > randy >> > _______________________________________________ >> > freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen >> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-xen-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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