[Libvir] [RFC] 1/3 Base linux container support

Dave Leskovec dlesko at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Feb 21 18:52:05 UTC 2008


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:24:49PM -0800, Dave Leskovec wrote:
>   
>> This patch contains the base linux container support
>>
>> * new switch --with-lxc to enable support (off by default)
>>     
>
> Any reason this can't be on-by-default ?  I know OpenVZ is off by default
> but I'd like to see that on by default too. As it stands it never even
> gets compiled by most people so we don't see whether it breaks. 
>
> Support for Linux containers can be enabled/disable by user on the fly
> just by rebooting into a new enough kernel, so we should enable it in
> libvirt no matter what & probe at runtime if needed.
>   

I left it off by default because OpenVZ is that way but also because 
compiles on older (pre 2.6.24) kernels will get errors due to missing 
CLONE flags in sched.h

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Best Regards,
Dave Leskovec
IBM Linux Technology Center
Open Virtualization




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