[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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