Re: meta-cloud layer

["David Nyström" <david.c.nystrom@gmail.com>]

On 12/01/2012 12:23 AM, Michael Halstead wrote:
> On 11/30/2012 12:17 PM, Raymond Danks wrote:
>> On 11/30/2012 11:03 AM, Michael Halstead wrote:
>>> On 11/30/2012 09:26 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com
>>>> <mailto:sgw@linux.intel.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      On 11/30/2012 03:29 AM, David Nyström wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          On 11/29/2012 02:54 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>>>
>>>>              On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 06:44 -0700, Raymond Danks wrote:
>>>>
>>>>                  Thanks for looping me in here David. The initial
>>>>                  goal for the meta-xen
>>>>                  layer was in fact to encompass Xen Cloud Platform.
>>>>                   As such, the intent
>>>>                  was to contain both hypervisor and user-space
>>>>                  applications.  Indeed, the
>>>>                  xen distribution itself includes xm/libxl;
>>>>                  hypervisor abstraction would
>>>>                  be somewhat tedious in my opinion.
>>>>
>>>>                  The layer just received commits for expanding the
>>>>                  libvirt build to
>>>>                  support qemu.  The commonalities and shared packaged
>>>>                  between xen, qemu,
>>>>                  and kvm implementations are such that I would also
>>>>                  agree that meta-xen
>>>>                  should be expanded/renamed to encompass all
>>>>                  virtualization types; I also
>>>>                  support the move to meta-virtualization.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          meta-virtualization sounds good, let co-op on this so we
>>>>          don't duplicate
>>>>          work.
>>>>
>>>>      If everyone is OK with this, I will have Michael Halstead create
>>>>      a repo, please send him your keys so that you will have write
>>>>      access to it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This works for me. If Michael already has our keys, do we need to
>>>> resend or can
>>>> a local copy happen ?
>>> I already have keys for,
>>>
>>> David Nystrom df:2d:b1:59:f3:d7:73:fc:59:36:7b:cf:85:28:a7:50
>>> Bruce Ashfield  4f:93:90:b2:c7:a1:45:21:f2:47:31:6f:60:f9:60:02
>>>
>>> Either of you can currently add
>>> git@git.yoctoproject.org:meta-virtualization as a git remote and
>>> start the repository. Once we have initial code and the maintainers
>>> and patch submission guidelines in the readme I can publicly list the
>>> new repository.
>>>
>>> I require an ssh public key for Raymond Danks.
>> Thanks Michael.  I got your response and was able to push meta-xen to
>> the newly created repository on meta-virtualization.  I added one
>> commit to tweak the README and conf/layer.conf for the new name.
>>>
>>>
>>> We also need a short description for the listing on
>>> git.yoctoproject.org. I could be something similar to, but better
>>> than, "Layer enabling virtualization support. "
>> How about "Layer enabling hypervisor, virtualization tool stack, and
>> cloud support."
>>
> Sounds good to me. Thank you.
>> Also - I referenced the mail alias meta-virtualization at yoctoproject
>> in the README.  When you publish this, can we use something like that
>> as well?
>>
> I can add a private list for meta-virtualization@yoctoproject.org. Who
> shall I add to membership?
>

I would like to be added, since it seems I can't add myself at 
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo

Best Regards,
David