Re: sys_vserver

From: James Morris
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 17:59:06 EST


On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Chris Wright wrote:
>
> > I believe a reasonable portion of vserver can become a security module,
> > but there would clearly remain a need for some of the virtualization
> > (e.g. hostname, etc.).
>
> I definately want to have as much as possible of vserver
> using the normal security infrastructure, simply because
> it will save the vserver maintainers a lot of work ;)
>

I think virtualization is important/useful enough to warrant an API of
it's own. It could be similar to LSM, e.g. allow pluggable
virtualization modules, with no cost for the base kernel.



- James
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