[nycbug-talk] FBSD network stack virtualization

[George Rosamond]

Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Someone who watches the -current list sent me this thread:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-February/083830.html
> 
> Very interesting stuff - jails with a virtualized IP stack.  They are 
> looking to get it into 7.x.
> 
> More info:
> 
> http://imunes.tel.fer.hr/virtnet/
> http://imunes.tel.fer.hr/virtnet/eurobsdcon07_tutorial.pdf
> 
> Looks neat to me, I'd rather see it land in 7.mumble than 8.mumble.
> 
> Charles

Very much interesting. . . I know Ike has been following this a bit, and 
he made me aware a while ago.

It could be cool for lots of reasons. . .

Let jail admins deal with firewalling themselves.

Really take a huge leap into competing with other virtualized systems.

Haven't gone through the presentation yet . . . but I'd rather see more 
strict controls on memory and disk usage (no, not just quotas) on the 
jails from the host first.

And after going through that thread quick. . . I really don't want to 
see another 5.x mess for FBSD. . .

g