----- "Scott Dowdle" <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter, > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Why OpenVZ is not implemented as loadable Kernel modules? Is it > > possible? > > > > Would not this make OpenVZ ultra flexible and may make it widely > > available to new users? > > Some of OpenVZ is already implimented as modules. Just do an lsmod | > grep vz on your OpenVZ host node. > > Speaking as a non-developer / non-programmer who is not familiar with > the OpenVZ design / implementation... I believe that OpenVZ requires a > lot of changes to many of the underlying subsystems... changes that > you can't do via a module. The reason that KVM can get away with > being a module (I believe) is that changes have been made in the > mainline to accommodate KVM. The only way OpenVZ could do what it > needs to do to become a standalone module like KVM is if all of the > needed changes to the underlying subsystems were made to mainline... > which isn't going to happen. >
OK, I'll bite. What makes OpenVZ so horrific that it will never be put into mainline? --Tim _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
