SmartOS (based on IllumOS) released - with KVM
SmartOS (based on IllumOS) released - with KVM
Posted Aug 16, 2011 20:47 UTC (Tue) by jone (guest, #62596)In reply to: SmartOS (based on IllumOS) released - with KVM by fuhchee
Parent article: SmartOS (based on IllumOS) released - with KVM
Perhaps that should really read:
"it is a derived work of Linux, KVM, and Illumos"
realistically KVM (or the KVM modules more specifically) is a derived (and dependent) work from interfaces in the Linux kernel, and the Joyent port is a derived work of certain Linux interfaces (some they chose not to port), KVM interfaces, and the Illumos kernel .. (of course there are derived works in the linux kernel from earlier sun code covered now by the CDDL - but who's counting?)
there's a good talk that bmc did (is doing?) for linux-kvm 2011 forum this week that goes into much more detail on what was involved .. slides here:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/7/71/2011-forum-port...