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Date:      Mon, 04 May 2009 15:27:17 +0300
From:      Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com>
To:        Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        virtualization@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: VIMAGE
Message-ID:  <49FEDF25.9060901@gmx.com>
In-Reply-To: <49FE5937.3000606@FreeBSD.org>
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Jamie Gritton wrote:
> Jails will be able to exist without processes, and in fact with nothing
> more than a vimage attached.  

Ah that's what I was looking for.

But much of vimage only makes sense in
> conjunction with processes - a process attached to a vimage can see that
> vimage's network interfaces.  There are still things like routing that
> work independent of processes I suppose, but it seems to me much what a
> vimage does is provide the network stack to the processes it's tied to.

Yet, VIMAGE is very similar in concept with VRF
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRF) and I think
FreeBSD will look very promising in router-like
applications:)

Maybe there are applications of VIMAGE which
haven't been considered by its developers.
Time will tell...

Nikos



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