[libvirt] libvirt & VServer?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue May 20 09:22:50 UTC 2008


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:23:27AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 09:46:11AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone know what the current status of Linux VServer support is?
> > Last message I can find is a patch for it, which didn't make it into
> > libvirt:
> > 
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2007-October/msg00273.html
> 
>   Hum, right, but in the meantime lxc was added which is also a 
> (linux specific) container system, with the advantage of not requiring
> a patched kernel (only a very recent one).
>   I have no idea if lxc and V-Server are competing or merging, I would
> hope for the latter since they operate in the same space and the same
> set of constraints (at least from my viewpoint).

Thanks.  I don't know much about this either.  I was just asked by
someone from Debian about this.  Apparently VServer is popular or
supported in Debian?

Rich.

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