[Devel] Re: Containers roadmap?

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Mon Apr 6 15:36:24 PDT 2009


Quoting Chris R. Jones (chris at versecorp.net):
> One more question for the experts:
> 
> Is there any roadmap out there for when we can see containers support in 
> kernels for the major distributions (RHEL or SLES in our case)?
> 
> When will the feature be enabled by default in the linux kernels?
> (containers options aren't enabled by default in 2.6.29.1, for instance).
> 
> We've done some prototyping to get our application working with containers and 
> really like the solution.  But so far we've had to build our own kernel and 
> and really need to use kernels that come with the distribution.  
> 
> Any rough estimates when that will be the case?

I'm not gonna speak for any distros, but I definately can say that
the Fedora 11 beta has all the kernel features enabled.  Network
namespaces, even devpts namespaces.

-serge
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