[nycbug-talk] FBSD network stack virtualization

[Siobhan Patricia Lynch]

OpenSolaris does this already. In fact we're using it in our product to facilitate routing of zones out of the global zone (host os). If FreeBSD had supported this a few months ago we might not be using OpenSolaris :(

Still it'll be a while until its a stable thing on FBSD.

-Trish
-- 
Siobhan Patricia Lynch


-----Original Message-----
From: George Rosamond <george at ceetonetechnology.com>

Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:45:21 
To:Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net>
Cc:talk at lists.nycbug.org
Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] FBSD network stack virtualization


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
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