[Capi-bof] Charter - last call for changes

Tue Mar 24 09:04:32 CDT 2009

Fully agree, the aim is to manage the life-cycle of VMs; and that can  
require the definition of networking attributes (public IPs, virtual  
networks to interconnect VM instances...) and image management.

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On 24/03/2009, at 14:11, Thijs Metsch wrote:

>
> 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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