[Libvir] [RFC] Add Container support to libvirt

[Shuveb Hussain]

On Jan 17, 2008 12:55 PM, Vivek Kashyap <kashyapv at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Shuveb Hussain wrote:
>
> > On Jan 17, 2008 2:30 AM, Dan Smith <danms at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >> DL>       <network>
> >> DL>           <ipaddress>192.168.1.110</ipaddress>
> >> DL>           <hostname>browndog</hostname>
> >> DL>           <gateway>192.168.1.1</gateway>
> >> DL>           <nameserver>192.168.1.1</nameserver>
> >> DL>           <netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask>
> >> DL>       </network>
> >>
> >> This is me showing my complete ignorance here, but can you enforce the
> >> hostname inside a container like that?  I would expect that to be done
> >> by the init scripts inside a container, much like a real machine.
> >
> > It is most flexible to manage virtual machines from the base machine
> > on which they run. The idea is to run an agent on the base machine
> > alone that is able to configure all virtual machines without the need
> > to have agents inside of each of the virtual machines. When an OpenVZ
> > VPS is being created, the tools actually set /etc/resolv.conf and also
>
>
> Containers  would similarly be managed from the init namespace.
>
> [On 2.6.24 kernel ensure you have cgroup and controllers support
> included - CGROUP_* set of config options. Then mount as follows -
>
> mount -t cgroup -o ns none /containers]
>
> If a Container is clone()ed now it will automatically show up in
> /containers as node_<pid> of the child. One can then rename this to the
> desired name as well as pass the desired hostname as part of the
> configuration for the Container wherein its init task/script can set the
> hostname.
>
>
> Am I understanding and correlating the above correctly to what you
> mention wrt OpenVZ?


You are correct. Also, like mentioned before the container(its init
script) is responsible for picking up its networking parameters and
setting it up.

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