[virt-tools-list] and for LXC?

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Mar 2 10:23:51 UTC 2010


On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:48:51AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> > Cleber Rosa <crosa at redhat.com> :
> > virt-install/virt-manager still need some love wrt lxc... I've started
> > playing around with that, but that's still only a proof of concept. 
> 
> Is there any hope that LXC gets more interest?

LXC is still in a very early stage of development in the kernel itself, so
we're being cautious about telling people to use it in the real world. For
example, there is no user id / group id namespace separation between the 
host and container. This has some security implications in certain deployment
scenarios. I would say LXC is just starting to be useful for experimentation
& developer usage, but not yet production deployment.  We of course also 
need to improve the tools support like virt-manager, but also the tools
for creating chroot based environments of distros, since this deployment
model is very different from the kernel/initrd boot done with full machine
virtualization

Daniel
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