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, etc. 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
Doug Goldstein	cardoe	Member ( KVM )
Daniel Gryniewicz	dang	Member ( KVM )
Donnie Berkholz	dberkholz	Member ( libvirt )
Tiziano Müller	dev-zero	Member ( Various Virtualization Packages/KVM )
Markus Ullmann	jokey	Member ( VirtualBox )
Luca Barbato	lu_zero	Member ( Qemu, bochs )
Michael Marineau	marineam	Member ( Xen )
Robert Buchholz	rbu	Member ( Xen )
Vadim Kuznetsov	vadimk	Member ( VMware )

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.

Updated 03 June 2008

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

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