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

[Dave Cost]

> 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.

I agrees. It's not UML for the same reasons. It will be capabilities-based
so it will allow us not to patch packages. There won't be an emulation layer
or secondary kernel at all. The user-space processes will talk to the main
kernel.

Dave.