Re: [dc] draft-khasnabish-vmmi-problems-00.txt

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 04:06:19PM -0800, Christopher LILJENSTOLPE wrote:
> Greetings Vishwas,
> 
> 	And I guess I am saying that I'm not sure I agree.  If a single process running can kill all the other processes on a given system (especially if it is in "user space" - which I would assume for control plane functions), I would say that there are more substantial issues with the architecture of that particular VM distribution.  Similar answer if someone actually put a control-plane engine (think routing protocols) in kernel space.  We, as a standards organization can't save the world from less-than-inteligent developers....
> 

The Linux-based hypervisors I have used happen to have the bridge(s)
in the kernel plus user space utilities to configure/control them, as
it should be. But then I am not using products but just open source
implementations... ;-)

A general observation: I think what this discussion really is lacking
is implementors familiar with real-world implementations. If there
were more implementors involved here with a decent understanding of
code bases, I assume we would be quickly able to figure out what and
if anything needs to be dealt with in the IETF.

/js

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