From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965091AbVLNXkO (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:40:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965069AbVLNXkN (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:40:13 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn2.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.38]:19151 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965091AbVLNXkM (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:40:12 -0500 Message-ID: <43A0AD68.50107@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:40:24 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel CC: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , LKML , Linux-VServer ML Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] second stable release of Linux-VServer References: <20051213185650.GA6466@MAIL.13thfloor.at> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me