On Thursday 13 October 2005 18:43, Robert Larson wrote: > Hi hi, > > Does anyone know anything about the Gentoo Vserver project? Im curious if > it's anything like UML (UserMode Linux), or a gentoo-ized branch of UML.
no. it's the www.linux-vserver.org implementation in gentoo we (phreak and i) maintain.. > > I am currently running UML in a production environment, and at times it's a > bit shady as there are quite a few querks that I have to deal with (I would > not recommend it for production). I would love to find a more reliable > solution that might accomplish some of my original goals. > > I have found documentation on it, but it doesn't really go into much about > _what_ it is: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/vserver-howto.xml > > The tools that get emerged seem to do a lot of the work. I can't tell if > it runs it's own kernel, or if it has it's own system call implementation > in any way. Yes, we have sys-kernel/vserver-sources (mentioned in the howto), which does implement the vserver syscall. you can find more information about linux-vserver on the site, there's plenty of documentation. feel free to join oftc#vserver or freenode#gentoo-vserver > > If anyone has any further information, it would be appreciated. > > Kind regards, > > Robert -- [email protected] mailing list
