[Users] OpenVZ as Kernel modules

[Tim Nelson]

----- "Scott Dowdle" <dowdle at montanalinux.org> wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Why OpenVZ is not implemented as loadable Kernel modules? Is it
> > possible?
> > 
> > Would not this make OpenVZ ultra flexible and may make it widely
> > available to new users?
> 
> Some of OpenVZ is already implimented as modules.  Just do an lsmod |
> grep vz on your OpenVZ host node.
> 
> Speaking as a non-developer / non-programmer who is not familiar with
> the OpenVZ design / implementation... I believe that OpenVZ requires a
> lot of changes to many of the underlying subsystems... changes that
> you can't do via a module.  The reason that KVM can get away with
> being a module (I believe) is that changes have been made in the
> mainline to accommodate KVM.  The only way OpenVZ could do what it
> needs to do to become a standalone module like KVM is if all of the
> needed changes to the underlying subsystems were made to mainline...
> which isn't going to happen.
> 

OK, I'll bite. What makes OpenVZ so horrific that it will never be put into mainline?

--Tim