[Libvir] [RFC] Add Container support to libvirt

[Shuveb Hussain]

Hi,

How do you plan to maintain VM states across base machine reboots. I
mean just as Xen uses XenStore and OpenVZ uses config files to
"remember" VM configs? Are there tools being developed to do that?

As I see it the container infrastructure is going into 2.6.24 as a
generic UNIXish mechanism. It is well integrated into the kernel. So
I'm really wondering if there are generic tools going to be available
to manage the configuration of containers.

I don't know if it is a good idea to use libvirt's XML files
themselves for container config and start containers during libvirtd
start-up. I'm just thinking aloud here. What was your plan?

--shuveb

On Jan 2, 2008 1:15 PM, Dave Leskovec <dlesko at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Shuveb,
>
> Thanks!
>
> The application tag is intended to be used to specify one or executables
> or scripts to run in the container.  For simple cases where there is
> only one or a few things to be started in the container, they could be
> specified with this tag.  Otherwise, it would point to an initialization
> script that would take care of starting the appropriate items for the
> container.
>
> Best Regards,
> Dave Leskovec
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> Open Virtualization
>
>
> Shuveb Hussain wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Will definitely be a great enhancement!
> >
> > On Dec 28, 2007 2:04 PM, Dave Leskovec <dlesko at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> >>         <application>dbserver</application>
> >>
> > [snip]
> >
> > What exactly is the "application" tag used for?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
>
>



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