[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup

Hubertus Franke frankeh at watson.ibm.com
Sun Feb 5 07:39:51 PST 2006


Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>> How do we want to create the container?
>> In our patch we did it through a /proc/container filesystem.
>> Which created the container object and then on fork/exec switched over.
> 
> this doesn't look good for a full virtualization solution, since proc 
> should be virtualized as well :)

Just lazy's man's development version of a faked sys_call to create the container
without having to go through all architectures ...
Nothing permanent..


> 
>> How about an additional sys_exec_container( exec_args + 
>> "container_name").
>> This does all the work like exec, but creates new container
>> with name "..." and attaches task to new container.
>> If name exists, an error -EEXIST will be raised !
> 
> Why do you need exec?

(a) how do you create/destroy a container
(b) how do you attach yourself to it?

-- Hubertus




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