[Libvir] [RFC] 0/3 Add Linux Container support to libvirt

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:04:31PM -0800, Dan Smith wrote:
> DL> Right.  For a container, <init> would be the only member of <os>
> DL> as well right?  At the moment, I don't know of anything else that
> DL> we will be adding to <container>.
> 
> No, <os> contains lots of stuff, just none of it applies to a
> container :)  From the perspective of a consumer of the interface,
> there is only one block that needs to be examined.  If you put <init>
> in <container>, then I have to look at <container> (maybe) in addition
> to <os> (maybe).

I always think of '<os>' as providing data about the way your start the
virtual machine. eg, the kernel / initrd for paravirt, the BIOS boot device
for fullvirt, and thus..... the 'init' process for containers.

Oh, pretend you didn't see the '<bootloader>' tag outside the <os> block.
A historical mistake :-(

Dan.
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