On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 08:44:54AM -0500, TuxRaiderPen wrote: > On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 05:16:56 [email protected] wrote: > > On the LXC 1.0 roadmap page [1] this feature is listed. What's the status > > on it - is it still a desired component for upcoming LXC versions? > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LXC/1.0-roadmap > > I read this and then read various articles like Linux Format did about > libvirt > being a "GUI frontend" to lxc and then various things about lxc-libvirt being > "different" and then something about if you have existing lxc setup you can > control them via libvirt by creating the needed file(s) this way.... > > So I am confused... > > I find lxc useful for some things I normally would setup VMware Player to > do... > managing these via the tools at least in my current setup based on 12.04 ESR > KUbuntu (I run a highly customized distro which is imaged to each system).. > > I've seen another GUI tool which looked interesting too but requires a > version > of lxc later than available right now...and while the lxc CLI tools are > fine.... some of the GUI stuff could be of use as well... > > So I am looking to understand the diffrences of this lxc-libvirt stuff v. > lxc? ? > ?
The main goal behind this todo item was to get liblxc support into OpenStack which is now being done in a different way (directly as an OpenStack plugin, bypassing the libvirt layer which is more suited to handling VMs than containers). I think I've already said so here a dozen time but let's clarify it again, libvirt-lxc and lxc are entirely different projects which unfortunately happen to share a name, there's not a single line of code in common between those two and their feature set is widely different too. While it'd be nice to have libvirt-lxc be based on liblxc, that doesn't seem to be the direction that project is currently heading towards. Having a second libvirt driver would be an option but given that OpenStack is now working towards a container API which will let us get direct LXC integration, there's not many insentive for us to divert time from other work in order to work on such a plugin. -- Stéphane Graber Ubuntu developer http://www.ubuntu.com
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