Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:13:09 +0200 From: "Peter Cornelius" <pcc@gmx.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, geekounet@poildetroll.net Cc: freebsd-jail@freebsd.org, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vimage vs. jails Message-ID: <20090820121309.122740@gmx.net>
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Hi guys, Thanks for the response, so it wasn´t such a bad question after all :) I "have" to pay toll to wifey & kids for a couple of days and will go on after that (hoping that the kernels I then build actually to run ;-)). Regards, Peter. -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:28:45 -0700 > Von: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> > An: Pierre Guinoiseau <geekounet@poildetroll.net> > CC: Peter Cornelius <pcc@gmx.net>, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org, freebsd-jail@freebsd.org > Betreff: Re: Vimage vs. jails > Pierre Guinoiseau wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Julian Elischer wrote: > >> it's not Vimage vs Jails > >> but > >> Vimage as part of Jails. > >> > >> > >> Peter Cornelius wrote: > >>> Hi there, > >>> > >>> I just see the vimage changes going into RELENG_8 and I now am > >>> getting my hands dirty, finally. So thanks to all involved. > >>> > >>> Just to get my head around this the right way, I understand that > >>> there is no plan to merge vimage and jail into a single jail > >>> utility, right? > >> Actually it IS now all one utility... > >> Add the 'vnet' option to jail to get it to create a new vnet withthe > >> jail, otherwise it acts as before. > >> > >>> I may want a large number of vimages "w/o" jails, or at least a > >>> number of jails "inside" a couple of vimages (reason being the > >>> default route issue raised a while ago). > >> can you expand on that? > >> > >> example comand lines include: > >> jail -c host.hostname=test path=/ vnet command=/bin/tcsh > >> ( make a jail with the same root as normal but with a separate > >> network stack.) > >> > >> > >> jail -c host.hostname=test path=/ vnet children.max=4 \ > >> command=/bin/tcsh > >> (same as above, excep the jail made is in turn able to make > >> up to 4 child jails > >> > > > > BTW, when will we be able to set those new parameters in rc.conf? The > > current jails rc script still uses the old way for setting up (or maybe > > did I missed something?), so it doesn't allow to add those new > > parameters. :( It may be a desirable feature for 8.0-RELEASE I think. > > > The 8.0 vimage/vnet feature is a "feature test" facility. > it allows you to test it out but no-one in their right mind > would tell you to use it in production. > > It's been some time since I used the rc.conf method of starting jails > so I can't speak to how much change would be required. > possibly just the addition of "jail_xxx_extra_params". > > I forgot to mention the ifconfig vnet additions too, to allow an > interface to be assigned to a particular jail. > > > > > >>> Thanks again, and > >>> > >>> All the best, > >>> > >>> Peter. > >>> > >>> --- > >>> > >>> PS. I see a couple of lock order reversals on RELENG_8 which I > >>> would like to report if the build currently running did not address > >>> them -- do we prefer them to a mailing list or to gnats? > > > > -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser
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