Re: [libvirt] libvirt & VServer?
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:22:50AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:23:27AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 09:46:11AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know what the current status of Linux VServer support is?
> > Last message I can find is a patch for it, which didn't make it into
> > libvirt:
> >
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2007-October/msg00273.html
>
> Hum, right, but in the meantime lxc was added which is also a
> (linux specific) container system, with the advantage of not requiring
> a patched kernel (only a very recent one).
> I have no idea if lxc and V-Server are competing or merging, I would
> hope for the latter since they operate in the same space and the same
> set of constraints (at least from my viewpoint).
Thanks. I don't know much about this either. I was just asked by
someone from Debian about this. Apparently VServer is popular or
supported in Debian?
I think we were supportive of the V-Server patch too. The discussion
was only about the XML format used.
In general adding support for new hypervisors in libvirt is a good
idea, this means less effort at the tool level. The most confusing seems
the small twaeks needed at the XML format to adapt to specifics of the
hypervisors/virtualization, but hopefully with the new format documentation
this should get clearer now,
Daniel
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