Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:15:12 +0100 From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: why vimage? Message-ID: <200802262015.19683.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> In-Reply-To: <47C44420.6050009@elischer.org> References: <47C44420.6050009@elischer.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] > some people have asked me why I would want vimage.. > The answer is because it allows you to do lots of things easily > that are hard to do normally. I find it strange that people would ask this. To me, this is the type of killer feature that I want to see in my favorite operating system, from a user/syadmin perspective. There are several reasons why jails are preferable to xen/vmware/etc. There are also several reasons why they are not. This project eliminates a good chunk of those latter reasons. ipv6 support is long-awaited for me personally. The ability to provide more complete VPS functionality (including firewall rules) is most definitely desired. Arbitrary setups like the one you descripted are also useful (I have an actual use-case for this at home where I have not yet bothered connecting some equipment due to the complexity of doing it - vimage would help a lot). I cannot comment on the commit policies or internal technical reasons for not including it yet, but you definitely have my "I want it" vote from the user/sysadmin perspective. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHxGVHDNor2+l1i30RAlLcAKDu/fE8KMSb/V5JmZFhfkTGPQ3CFQCfZoz3 mKXCorZDTxtAMrx6YkvjNzo= =FkO2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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