Re: [Openvds-devel] Control Panel for OpenVDS-2

[Joe Cooper]

Dave Cost wrote:

> > What is the status. Who's in "charge" of the openvds project?
>
> Currently I'm the only active developer. OpenVDS-2 is still a concept more
> than a real thing, but the basic pieces of it are working. It's a matter of
> placing everything together.
>
> So far, it seems possible to have a real root user in each VDS (instead of
> the pseudo-root admin) and what is better, no patches will be required for
> the packages installed in the VDS. Furter, apart from the kernel which is



Sorry, I must have missed a meeting... Are you talking about a User Mode 
Linux based design, or do you know of a system like FreeBSD's Jail for 
Linux?

If UML, I'll take this opportunity to briefly point out the major 
weakness of such a solution: Efficiency.  A UML-based solution will max 
out at 30-40 virtuals on current high end x86 hardware.  I'm not saying 
this should rule out a UML based system, but it does take the concept 
into a different market and different pricing scale.

If not UML, then what?  I know Solucorp has something along these lines, 
but I'm not extremely familiar with it, and whether it can be used in 
the same way as a FreeBSD Jail.--
Joe Cooper <address@hidden>
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