[Devel] Re: lxc userspace tools 0.3.0 released

Daniel Lezcano dlezcano at fr.ibm.com
Thu Oct 16 07:10:38 PDT 2008


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 02:55:23PM +0200, Cedric Le Goater wrote:
>>> Just to clarify to avoid confusion. There is a LXC project inside the 
>>> libvirt and there is the lxc userspace tools (liblxc). We are talking 
>>> about the liblxc.
>> I wouldn't say there is a "LXC project inside the libvirt" but rather
>> there is a libvirt driver emulating a virtual machine using namespaces.
>> This driver is called lxc for some reason I don't know and this is very 
>> unfortunate IMO.
> 
> It is called LXC because it implements "LinuX Containers". When we first
> released this LXC driver in libvirt this lxc userspace tools package didn't
> exist so there was no naming clash.

Libvirt being a VM/container middleware, shouldn't we change lxc-driver 
to use liblxc ?

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