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On Thursday 13 October 2005 18:43, Robert Larson wrote: |
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> Hi hi, |
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> Does anyone know anything about the Gentoo Vserver project? Im curious if |
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> it's anything like UML (UserMode Linux), or a gentoo-ized branch of UML. |
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no. it's the www.linux-vserver.org implementation in gentoo we (phreak and i) |
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maintain.. |
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> I am currently running UML in a production environment, and at times it's a |
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> bit shady as there are quite a few querks that I have to deal with (I would |
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> not recommend it for production). I would love to find a more reliable |
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> solution that might accomplish some of my original goals. |
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> I have found documentation on it, but it doesn't really go into much about |
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> _what_ it is: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/vserver-howto.xml |
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> The tools that get emerged seem to do a lot of the work. I can't tell if |
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> it runs it's own kernel, or if it has it's own system call implementation |
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> in any way. |
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Yes, we have sys-kernel/vserver-sources (mentioned in the howto), which does |
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implement the vserver syscall. you can find more information about |
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linux-vserver on the site, there's plenty of documentation. |
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feel free to join oftc#vserver or freenode#gentoo-vserver |
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> If anyone has any further information, it would be appreciated. |
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> Kind regards, |
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> Robert |
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