Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030348AbWBHBF1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:05:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030350AbWBHBF0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:05:26 -0500 Received: from atlas.pnl.gov ([130.20.248.194]:986 "EHLO atlas.pnl.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030347AbWBHBFY (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:05:24 -0500 Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:08:03 -0800 From: Kevin Fox Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Virtualization/containers: introduction In-reply-to: <43E92602.8040403@vilain.net> To: Sam Vilain Cc: Hubertus Franke , Rik van Riel , "Eric W. Biederman" , Kirill Korotaev , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clg@fr.ibm.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, greg@kroah.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, serue@us.ibm.com, arjan@infradead.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, saw@sawoct.com, devel@openvz.org, Dmitry Mishin , Andi Kleen Message-id: <1139364483.7169.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <43E7C65F.3050609@openvz.org> <43E83E8A.1040704@vilain.net> <43E8D160.4040803@watson.ibm.com> <43E92602.8040403@vilain.net> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Feb 2006 01:05:22.0695 (UTC) FILETIME=[BCB78170:01C62C4B] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1266 Lines: 30 On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:58 +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: > Hubertus Franke wrote: > > The container is just an umbrella object that ties every "virtualized" > > subsystem together. > > I like this description; it matches roughly with the concepts as > presented by vserver; there is the process virtualisation (vx_info), and > the network virtualisation (nx_info) of Eric's that has been integrated > to the vserver 2.1.x development branch. However the vx_info has become > the de facto umbrella object space as well. These could almost > certainly be split out without too much pain or incurring major > rethinks. > > Sam. How does all of this tie in with CPU Sets? It seems to me, they have something not unlike a container already that supports nesting. Kevin > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/