Re: [Vserver] A possible new idea

2006-05-15 Thread Fareha Shafique
Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:17:47PM -0400, Fareha Shafique wrote: Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:17:55PM -0400, Fareha Shafique wrote: Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:46:34PM -0400, Fareha Shafique wrote:

Re: [Vserver] A possible new idea

2006-05-12 Thread Fareha Shafique
Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:17:55PM -0400, Fareha Shafique wrote: Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:46:34PM -0400, Fareha Shafique wrote: After asking various questions about unification, I don't think vhashify quite supports what I have

Re: [Vserver] A possible new idea

2006-05-11 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
Risking to get off-topic: On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 23:20 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:35:38AM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: why would somebody want to _share_ the host files with the guest, instead of having a separate filesystem for them? This is actually how

Re: [Vserver] A possible new idea

2006-05-11 Thread Sebastian Harl
You could use unionfs or bind-mounts to share directories between host- and guest-filesystem. Of course this would need some manuall work... well, bind mounts should work out-of-the-box, basically just add them to the fstab in the guest config Well, besides having to compile the

Re: [Vserver] A possible new idea

2006-05-10 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:46:34PM -0400, Fareha Shafique wrote: After asking various questions about unification, I don't think vhashify quite supports what I have in mind. I wanted to get some opinions/ideas from the users of this mailing list. I am thinking if vservers can somehow be

Re: [Vserver] A possible new idea

2006-05-10 Thread Fareha Shafique
Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:46:34PM -0400, Fareha Shafique wrote: After asking various questions about unification, I don't think vhashify quite supports what I have in mind. I wanted to get some opinions/ideas from the users of this mailing list. I am thinking if

Re: [Vserver] A possible new idea

2006-05-10 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:17:55PM -0400, Fareha Shafique wrote: Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:46:34PM -0400, Fareha Shafique wrote: After asking various questions about unification, I don't think vhashify quite supports what I have in mind. I wanted to get some

Re: [Vserver] A possible new idea

2006-05-10 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi, why would somebody want to _share_ the host files with the guest, instead of having a separate filesystem for them? This is actually how Solaris 10 zones work. In a Solaris 10 zone the filesystems /usr /bin /lib and so on are read-only loop-back mounts to the host OS. It makes