Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:47:08 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       frankeh@watson.ibm.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 00/13] Introduce task_pid api
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:15:01PM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Paul Jackson (pj@sgi.com):
> > Serge wrote:
> > > the vserver model
> > 
> > What's that?
> 
> :)  Well a vserver pretends to be a full system of its own, though you
> can have lots of vservers on one machine.  Processes in each virtual
> server see only other processes in the same vserver.  However in
> vserver the pids they see are the real kernel pids - except for one
> process per vserver which can be the fakeinit.  Other processes in the
> same vserver see it as pid 1, but to the kernel it is still known by
> its real pid.

Why not just use Xen?  It can handle process migration from one virtual
machine to another just fine.

thanks,

greg k-h
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