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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--nextPart1454992.IdXg8izbK8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline > 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=20 killer feature that I want to see in my favorite operating system, from a=20 user/syadmin perspective. There are several reasons why jails are preferabl= e=20 to xen/vmware/etc. There are also several reasons why they are not. This=20 project eliminates a good chunk of those latter reasons. ipv6 support is long-awaited for me personally. The ability to provide more= =20 complete VPS functionality (including firewall rules) is most definitely=20 desired. Arbitrary setups like the one you descripted are also useful (I ha= ve=20 an actual use-case for this at home where I have not yet bothered connectin= g=20 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 n= ot=20 including it yet, but you definitely have my "I want it" vote from the=20 user/sysadmin perspective. =2D-=20 / 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 --nextPart1454992.IdXg8izbK8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHxGVHDNor2+l1i30RAlLcAKDu/fE8KMSb/V5JmZFhfkTGPQ3CFQCfZoz3 mKXCorZDTxtAMrx6YkvjNzo= =FkO2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1454992.IdXg8izbK8--
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