Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:20:32 +1000 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1 | From | Dave Airlie <> |
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>>> >>> I've had Enterprise systems where I could hit power on two boxes, and >>> finish >>> the OS install on one before the other has even finished POST and look >>> for >>> the boot media. I did this 5 years ago, before the "let's speed up boot" >>> push started. >>> >>> Admittedly, this wasn't a stock distro boot/install, it was my own >>> optimized >>> one, but it also wasn't as optimized and automated as it could have been >>> (several points where the installer needed to pick items from a menu and >>> enter values) >>> >> >> You guys might have missed this new industry trend, I think they call >> it virtualisation, >> >> I hear it's going to be big, you might want to look into it. > > > So what do you run your virtual machines on? you still have to put an OS on > the hardware to support your VMs. Virtualization doesn't eliminate servers > (as much as some cloud advocates like to claim it does) > > And virtualization has overhead, sometimes very significant overhead, so > it's not always the right answer. >
Thanks for proving my point, RHEL as a distro runs in both scenarios, optimising one is important at the moment, that fact that it might speed up boot on server which take 15 mins to POST is a side effect.
For some reason people seem to think their one use case is all that matters,
Dave.
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