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

[Joe Cooper]

Dave Cost wrote:

> > 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.


Nifty.  Much better idea for hosting.  Will look into this...When do you 
plan to begin implementing a capabilities-based version?  I'll spend 
some time on paralleling the development in a Webmin module.
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