[Devel] Documentation on Development

[Kir Kolyshkin]

Christian Kaiser2 wrote:
> Kir Kolyshkin <kir at openvz.org> wrote on 11.05.2007 15:00:41:
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>   
>> 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 ;-)
>   
Good.
>   
>> 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?
>   
Right, some hardware-dependent functionality is naturally not available 
in VE. So, each fail has to be checked and examined -- is that a fail or 
this test have to be removed (or reworked).

Still, in case of setting system time -- if you grant a VE a sys_time 
capability (vzctl set NNN --capability sys_time:on --save) you'll be 
able to set system time from inside a VE.

> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards
> Christian Kaiser
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> Open Systems Firmware Development
> mail: ckaiser2 at de.ibm.com
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