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From: | Joe Cooper |
Subject: | Re: [Openvds-devel] Control Panel for OpenVDS-2 |
Date: | Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:12:07 -0600 |
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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.--
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