[gentoo-server] Gentoo VServer

[gentoo-server] Gentoo VServer

[Robert Larson]

Hi hi,

Does anyone know anything about the Gentoo Vserver project?  Im curious if 
it's anything like UML (UserMode Linux), or a gentoo-ized branch of UML.

I am currently running UML in a production environment, and at times it's a 
bit shady as there are quite a few querks that I have to deal with (I would 
not recommend it for production).  I would love to find a more reliable 
solution that might accomplish some of my original goals.

I have found documentation on it, but it doesn't really go into much about 
_what_ it is:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/vserver-howto.xml

The tools that get emerged seem to do a lot of the work.  I can't tell if it 
runs it's own kernel, or if it has it's own system call implementation in any 
way.  

If anyone has any further information, it would be appreciated.

Kind regards,

Robert
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Re: [gentoo-server] Gentoo VServer

[Benedikt Boehm]

On Thursday 13 October 2005 18:43, Robert Larson wrote:
> Hi hi,
>
> Does anyone know anything about the Gentoo Vserver project?  Im curious if
> it's anything like UML (UserMode Linux), or a gentoo-ized branch of UML.

no. it's the www.linux-vserver.org implementation in gentoo we (phreak and i) 
maintain..
>
> I am currently running UML in a production environment, and at times it's a
> bit shady as there are quite a few querks that I have to deal with (I would
> not recommend it for production).  I would love to find a more reliable
> solution that might accomplish some of my original goals.
>
> I have found documentation on it, but it doesn't really go into much about
> _what_ it is:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/vserver-howto.xml
>
> The tools that get emerged seem to do a lot of the work.  I can't tell if
> it runs it's own kernel, or if it has it's own system call implementation
> in any way.

Yes, we have sys-kernel/vserver-sources (mentioned in the howto), which does 
implement the vserver syscall. you can find more information about 
linux-vserver on the site, there's plenty of documentation.

feel free to join oftc#vserver or freenode#gentoo-vserver

>
> If anyone has any further information, it would be appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Robert
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