Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-02-11 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi all I can now announce an "half official" statement from Kir (who is the project manager of openvz) that they are now dedicated to make a openvz. This is what he states: - Hi Ola, guys, Thanks for the info. We have discussed this at length and the resolution is we are all for it.

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 25, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:26:42AM +, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Actually I meant "vzctl exec" so this is not even close: I need to > > change the context of a running process. > Hu? "vzctl exec" does a fork and an exec. Please enlighten me where the > support y

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 06:19:02PM +0100, Suno Ano wrote: > As you can see from http://sunoano.pastebin.com/m4b5380dc , line 29, > Cgroup memory controller is not. This setting is mandatory if you want > to control the available memory per containers and the like. It is not mandantory for the syst

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-25 Thread maximilian attems
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Suno Ano wrote: > Bastian> Please describe the _kernel_ improvements over the normal > Bastian> images. Most of it is already enabled in the default images > Bastian> and does not warrant for an extra image. > > As you can see from http://sunoano.pastebin.com/m4b5380dc , l

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:26:42AM +, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Actually I meant "vzctl exec" so this is not even close: I need to > change the context of a running process. Hu? "vzctl exec" does a fork and an exec. Please enlighten me where the support you want is actually implemented. Bastian

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-25 Thread Michael Tokarev
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 24, maximilian attems wrote: [] >> On the negative side it doesn't have yet checkpointing support >> and not all net/ has netns support yet. > It's not just that, AFAIK there is no match for many of the > user_beancounters features (especially the accounting part) and

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
In linux.debian.kernel maximilian attems wrote: >On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 03:17:14PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> lack of the equivalent of "vzctl enter" is a critical issue for my >> applications. >looks feasable thanks to libvirt: >virsh --connect lxc:/// console v1 >http://libvirt.org/drvlxc.h

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-24 Thread maximilian attems
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 03:17:14PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 24, maximilian attems wrote: > > > the plan as decided in Portland was to go forward with openvz > > if upstream provides us with a patch in time. as currently this > > looks quite bad (latest available patch is for 2.6.27, th

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-24 Thread maximilian attems
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 03:17:14PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > lack of the equivalent of "vzctl enter" is a critical issue for my > applications. looks feasable thanks to libvirt: virsh --connect lxc:/// console v1 http://libvirt.org/drvlxc.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ..

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
In linux.debian.kernel Suno Ano wrote: > Marco> So it will not actually be available in squeeze, and squeeze > Marco> cannot work with the lenny kernels unless they are rebuilt with > Marco> CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n. You could as well have said proposed > Marco> to wait and use the RHEL6 kernels

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 15:17 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 24, maximilian attems wrote: > > > the plan as decided in Portland was to go forward with openvz > > if upstream provides us with a patch in time. as currently this > > looks quite bad (latest available patch is for 2.6.27, there is

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-24 Thread Suno Ano
>> - Those environments in need for limits/beancounters (disk quota >> etc.) May probably have to wait another six months or so until it >> will be available in LXC. Till then it is quite possible to run on >> 2.6.26 with OpenVZ and then migrate things to LXC. Marco> So it will not actu

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
In linux.debian.kernel Suno Ano wrote: > - most folks run Linux-VServer, OpenVZ, LXC etc. on boxes they own plus > they control themselves so that is not really an issue I wonder how you came to this conclusion. > - those environments in need for limits/beancounters (disk quota etc.) > may p

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-24 Thread Suno Ano
Bastian> Please describe the _kernel_ improvements over the normal Bastian> images. Most of it is already enabled in the default images Bastian> and does not warrant for an extra image. As you can see from http://sunoano.pastebin.com/m4b5380dc , line 29, Cgroup memory controller is not. This se

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 01:37:26PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > I thus propose to enable an lxc (linux containers) [1] flavour: Please describe the _kernel_ improvements over the normal images. Most of it is already enabled in the default images and does not warrant for an extra image. > * l

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 24, maximilian attems wrote: > the plan as decided in Portland was to go forward with openvz > if upstream provides us with a patch in time. as currently this > looks quite bad (latest available patch is for 2.6.27, there is > no sign of a patch for 2.6.32, nor any schedule like it happene

lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-24 Thread maximilian attems
hello, the plan as decided in Portland was to go forward with openvz if upstream provides us with a patch in time. as currently this looks quite bad (latest available patch is for 2.6.27, there is no sign of a patch for 2.6.32, nor any schedule like it happened to be for Lenny). I thus propose to