From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Janne Karhunen Subject: Re: Device Namespaces Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:25:56 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20130822182118.GA28331@sergelap> <8761udlu0d.fsf@xmission.com> <871u4yddg4.fsf@xmission.com> <87bo3gshz5.fsf_-_@xmission.com> <20130926053320.GB3725@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130926053320.GB3725-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Linux Containers , Kay Sievers , Andy Lutomirski , devel-GEFAQzZX7r8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , lxc-devel , mhw-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org, Stephane Graber List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> In summary the situation with device hoptlug and containers sucks today, >> and we need to do something. Running a linux desktop in a container is >> a reasonably good example use case. > > No it isn't. I'd argue that this is a horrible use case, one that you > shouldn't do. Why not just use multi-head machines like people do who > really want to do this, relying on user separation? That's a workable > solution that is quite common and works very well today. I suppose so, but now you take the assumption that there is no need for running multiple Linux variants on the same host (say Ubuntu and Android side by side). Is this something you would not like to see done? -- Janne