Re: [ANNOUNCE] second stable release of Linux-VServer

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well, as the OpenVZ folks announced their release on LKML
>>I just decided to do similar for the Linux-VServer release,
>>so please let me know if that is not considered appropriate.
> 
> 
> Since there is a legitimate (and very popular) use case for
> virtuozzo / vserver functionality, I think it is a good
> thing to get all the code out in the open.
> 
> I really hope we will get something like BSD jail functionality
> in the Linux kernel.  It makes perfect sense for hosting
> environments.
> 
Like many needs there are lots of solutions, none of which are perfect, 
or at least without problems the competition says are important ;-) This 
is one more thing to study, but it seems as though there is not an 
overview of the various solutions for easy comparison.

This list is probably incomplete:
  linuxjail - BSD jail is the goal
  VMware - I use this for BSD machines
  xen - the last I looked ran Linux, not Windows or BSD unpatched
  UML - run Linux nicely
  VServer - news to me

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