Gentoo Virtualization Project

1. Project Description

With the various virtualization solutions are also tools available to manage more than one kind of virtual machine. Furthermore it is possible to share certain knowledge on how to setup and administer such systems. This project exists as a general virtualization project to maintain common packages, to collect documentation and to give the user a general overview what's available on all Gentoo platforms.

This includes (combination of) the following techniques: KVM, Qemu, Lguest, Xen, VMWare, VirtualBox, vServer, OpenVZ, Linux Containers, Solaris Zones, FreeBSD Jails

2. Project Goals

The current goal is to bring all stakeholders together and to define the next steps. Furthermore, mailinglist, irc-channel, mail-alias have to be created. Shortly after defining how the different sub-projects should interact, a public announcement has to be made.

3. Developers

Developer	Nickname	Role
	dev-zero	Lead ( various virtualization packages )
	dagger	Lead ( various virtualization packages )
	cardoe	Member ( libvirt )
	flameeyes	Member ( libvirt )
	jokey	Member ( VirtualBox )
	lu_zero	Member ( bochs )
Members from subproject vmware
	vadimk	Member
Members from subproject qemu
	cardoe	Member ( qemu-kvm )
	jmbsvicetto	Member ( qemu-kvm )
	lu_zero	Member ( qemu )
	tommy	Member ( qemu-kvm )
Members from subproject xen
	alexxy	Member
	rbu	Member
	wschlich	Member

All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.

4. Subprojects

The virtualization project has the following subprojects:

Project	Lead	Description
vmware		The Gentoo VMware project maintains the VMware packages in the Gentoo portage tree, as well as contacts with VMware, Inc.
qemu		The Gentoo QEMU Project maintains packages related to QEMU.
xen		The Gentoo Xen Project maintains packages related to Xen.

5. Herds

The virtualization project maintains the following herds:

Herd	Members	Description
virtualization	cardoe, dagger, dev-zero, flameeyes, jokey, lu_zero	Gentoo Virtualization Project

6. Contacting Us

IRC Channel

You can reach all our developers (and some users of course) in #gentoo-virtualization on irc.freenode.net

Page updated 14 Dec 2009

Summary: The Gentoo Virtualization Project maintains packages shared between the different virtualization (sub-)projects and provides documentation and tools to the user to make Gentoo a first choice platform as both host and guest system.

Tiziano Müller
Author

Doug Goldstein
Editor

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