[Capi-bof] Charter - last call for changes

[David Snelling]

Folks,

On 24 Mar 2009, at 11:18, Thijs Metsch wrote:

>> - The focus is still on virtual machines when there are actually
>> three types of "containers" we're wanting to control:
>> * Physical machines
>> * Virtual machines
>> * Lightweight virtual machines (zones, vservers, slices, etc.)
>> I would suggest adopting the term "workload" in place of "virtual
>> machine" (which could come in the form of a physical server image,
>> virtual machine, tgz chroot, etc.) and using "container" in place of
>> hypervisor, server, zone, chroot, etc.
>
> I'll try to take that into account and rewrite the parts.

My advice here, as I said on the call, is to stay narrow (e.g. VMs  
only). Including physical machines is all about DC management, and if  
you include concepts like "workload" you are starting the ocean  
boiler. You don't want to go there.


Take care:

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