[Devel] Documentation on Development

[Christian Kaiser2]

Kir Kolyshkin <kir at openvz.org> wrote on 11.05.2007 15:00:41:

> Hello Christian,
>
> To begin with, OpenVZ is 95% platform-independent that makes porting
> quite easy. We have already ported to POWER, although we don't have
> access to POWER hardware at the moment :(

So I will test it in a few days ;-)

> As for the testing, aside from basic functionality, we usually run VE
> start/stop test -- the idea is to have many VEs starting and stopping in
> parallel -- trying to catch some locking bugs etc. Unfortunately we do
> not have any tests open sourced, but we will definitely want to help
> testing as well.

I did some Kernel System Call Tests of the LTP-20070430 (
http://ltp.sourceforge.net) inside a VE. 20 Tests failed but more then 700
passed. Most of the failed ones had to do with Swap space and Setting time.
This is unavailable inside a VE, right?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards
Christian Kaiser

IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
Open Systems Firmware Development
mail: ckaiser2 at de.ibm.com


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