Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > Pavel, > > Please correct/enlarge me if there's anything missing/incorrect. > > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the ongoing merge of OpenVZ-based lightweight virtualization into >> mainline Linux seems to be progressing nicely and I have a few questions >> about it: >> - How usable will net namespaces be in 2.6.25? I'm especially interested >> in assigning a real hardware ethernet device to a VE. >> > > I guess some network namespace stuff is NOT completed in upcoming 2.6.25 > (a lot of stuff done, but not finished) > > For 2.6.26, it will be more-or-less working, with just a few exceptions > such as conntracks and IPv6 -- maybe. > >> - Will there be an OpenVZ patch or against 2.6.25? >> > > As of now we do not plan to have one. Porting to each mainstream version > is too much work to do -- instead we concentrate on > (1) merging stuff to mainstream > (2) supporting our stable kernels > (3) stabilizing 2.6.24 (for now)
2.6.26 will be the next kernel we will port on. >> - Do you expect net namespace/virtualization work to be completely >> merged in 2.6.26? >> > > As said before, we guess that network namespaces will be more or less > useable in 2.6.26. > >> - Which OpenVZ features will not make it to mainline in the 2.6.26 >> timeframe? >> > > A lot. Network namespaces is just one piece of a pie. > > To paint in big strokes: resource management and live migration are > still on our todo list. > > Resource management: some stuff is in -mm kernel, need to add much more. > Will work on that after finishing with net namespaces. Memory management will change with 2.6.26. API will be kept, but we'll have a per-ve swapout and (probably) drop privvmpages accounting. > Live migration: this is much more far perspective, we haven't even > started to discuss that seriously on containers@ list. >> Some of the questions above probably can't be answered without guessing, >> but a good guess is better than no information and I'd appreciate any >> status update newer than the OpenVZ blog entry from 2008-01-26. >> >> Thanks, >> Carl-Daniel >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@openvz.org >> https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
