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OpenBSD gets a hypervisor

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44 pointscolinprince14 comments

Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10612226

Where I can view the source? Is there a source browser where I can see the commit?

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/vmd/

CVS? Seriously?

It's still a very widely used version control system, despite the popularity of git. If it works (and well), why change it?

The "well" part is questionable. It's been many years since I used CVS, but I recall things like branching and merging being much more tedious affairs. People move on to things like Git not just because they're fashionable, but because they're more productive. When I see a large project still using CVS, it makes me wonder if there's some point trying to be made.

Presumably, part of it is related to licensing - OpenCVS being a BSD-licensed tool.

> ... it makes me wonder if there's some point trying to be made.

Perhaps that version control choices matter a whole lot less to a project's success than many, many other factors?

There's no single or authorititave reason published (that I could find), but these two quotes may explain:

    > Infrastructure exists.  To change it all would 
    > require a really good reason.

and

    > I hear about how wonderful the branching and merging 
    > is in these other products...but that is NOT
    > something we wish to be doing (see the presentations
    > on the OpenBSD development process in the "papers"
    > section of the website).  Our model is "all
    > development is done at HEAD", if something is
    > committed, it is supposed to be better than what was 
    > there before (which in some cases, may be "nothing",
    > in which case, the bar is more "it is in a state
    > where at least the group can work on it").

ViewCVS/CVSweb is still better than anything I've seen for Git.

Every. Single. HN. Thread. About. OpenBSD.

Devolves to talking about OpenBSD and how they still use CVS.

You are NOT OpenBSD.

just to be clear, the hypervisor's code is this one : http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/sys/...

cant wait to get some openbsd vm's spun up! great work and thx!

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