Subject: Re: Linux vservers
twistedhammer@subdimension.com
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 23:00:05 AKST
They mostly are pointing at BSD's jail() command, which the FAQ
for the vserver patch actually talks about... it is admittededly very
similar, but the vserver is a bit more flexible, being mutliple calls
not just one, and offers some managability that doesn't exist with
the jail method... besides, old technology or no, its a good addition
to the linux toolbox.
The other open-source tech that is mentioned is FreeVSD
(www.freevsd.org), which, as far as I can tell does a similar thing,
but requires non-standard binaries to make use of their setup.. the
vserver setup is cleaner, as far as I can see..
There is also apparently a close-sourced linux solution that does
this called Ensim..
Anyway, I this this is dang spiffy...
James Gibson
On 12 Nov 2001, at 21:04, James McMorris wrote:
> Read about it here:
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/06/2034233&mode=thread
>
> Lotsa people arguing about if it's really new technology or not.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: twistedhammer@subdimension.com
> Date: Monday, November 12, 2001 6:36 pm
> Subject: Linux vservers
>
> >
> > Anyone else seen this:
> > http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc
> > ??
> >
> > rather interesting, it's a kernel patch and some utilities to add
> > the ability to partiton off processes in linux, defining 'security
> > contexts', where prcesses in one context can't see or interact with
> > those in others..
> >
> > the primary goal is to create virtual servers under one instance of
> > the kernel; effectively with zero overhead.
> >
> > James Gibson
> >
> > James Gibson
> > twistedhammer@subdimension.com
> >
> >
> >
>
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