[Capi-bof] Charter - last call for changes

[Thijs Metsch]

I'm currently rewriting it using "resource virtualization" as 'the' term
- which basically means virtual machines. Not more an not less...

all the best,

-Thijs

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 13:01 +0000, David Snelling wrote:
> 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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