On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:02:28AM -0700, Technical Support wrote: > hi folks, > > apologies if this is a ticklish question or one I should just know the > answer to, but...
> I'm working for a large company that churns out lots of machines and am > trying to convince them to use vservers to help with several issues. > However, the folks on our "platform team" are concerned - they want > to use a "stock kernel" (which evidently means something downloaded > directly from kernel.org) and don't like the idea of a patch. > Evidently this causes a long-term maintenance issue - not necessarily > from the technical perspective of applying the patch, but from a > documentation, regression testing, license compliance (we distribute > appliances, so we have to do extra work for GPL compliance), etc. well, if the stock kernel.org kernel does what you want, then there is no need to add patches like Linux-VServer :) > So the questions I've been asked to ask are these -- > Is there progress on getting the vserver modifications into the > "standard kernel"? yes, OS-Level virtualization (and isolation) is getting into the mainline (vanilla) kernel > Is that even something the project hopes to accomplish at some > point? hmm, not really, but we are trying to make sure that whatever gets into mainline is actually useful and performant, but I think the actual framework will take quite a while until it is available (and usable) in mainline > If yes, any idea when...? :) the first elements of Linux-VServer are already in mainline (e.g. the various spaces introduced over time) and more stuff is getting in every day, a fully working isolation solution like Linux-VServer will take a few years to stabilize though HTC, Herbert > Thanks in advance! > > - Ken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver