Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 16:12:50 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Marko Zec <zec@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r193166 - in head/sys: kern net sys Message-ID: <4A230EF2.4020802@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <200905311210.n4VCA4rA042721@svn.freebsd.org> References: <200905311210.n4VCA4rA042721@svn.freebsd.org>
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Marko Zec wrote: > Author: zec > Date: Sun May 31 12:10:04 2009 > New Revision: 193166 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193166 > > Log: > Introduce an interm userland-kernel API for creating vnets and > assigning ifnets from one vnet to another. Deletion of vnets is not > yet supported. > > The interface is implemented as an ioctl extension so that no syscalls > had to be introduced. This should be acceptable given that the new > interface will be used for a short / interim period only, until the > new jail management framwork gains the capability of managing vnets. > This method for managing vimages / vnets has been in use for the past > 7 years without any observable issues. > > The userland tool to be used in conjunction with the interim API can be > found in p4: //depot/projects/vimage-commit2/src/usr.sbin/vimage/... and > will most probably never get commited to svn. please check the tool into tools where it can be gotten too easily. in: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/tools/tools/ we can remove them when we transition to the jamie's front-end.
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