On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Lars Kurth lars.kurth@xen.org wrote:
Hi Scott,
we are in the process of bootstrapping the Virtualization SIG and are working with the CentOS community to set it up. The intention is to work with anyone who has an interest to bring a specific virtualization technology to CentOS and who is willing to put enough time in to make their bit work. A lot of details are still open, such as whether there would be one CentOS virt variant covering all virt technologies (which is preferable to having several for a number of reasons), infrastructure questions, versions of packages for qemu, libvirt, ... interfaces to other SIGs and many more.
The next step is to set up the first meeting. We will make a proposal for dates and format shortly. I was out of the office for a while and am only just catching up with things that happened in the last month (such as the approval of the virt SIG).
This morning I sent out some feelers to the OpenVZ community (via the
OpenVZ Users mailing list,
blog.openvz.org, and the #openvz IRC channel) to see if any OpenVZ
users were already working with the CentOS project (I'm not). I am not aware of anyone from the OpenVZ community at this stage.
So does anyone that is part of this SIG care to tell me how much
OpenVZ interest there currently is To be honest, I don't have a clue. The steps you have already taken should certainly give you an indication on how much interest there may be from the OpenVZ community. And possibly someone on this list may respond.
I think he may have meant, how much interest the Virt SIG has in recieving contributions from the OpenVZ community; and I think the answer to that is, very much. :-)
Lars and I both work with the Xen Project, and so obviously have much more experience with Xen than OpenVZ; and most of my own engineering time will go towards Xen. But we (and the CentOS board) are committed to running it as an inclusive project.
-George