From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 17:20:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFAE11065677 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:20:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outbackdingo@gmail.com) Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5168FC19 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:20:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outbackdingo@gmail.com) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d27so388794tid.3 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:20:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:cc :in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version :x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HHsWYQ1+EAdwJkDuxe+ByepwQ3Lc9IFd1Qu+eBhkRhg=; b=bOEjbhh/eqYfl1DOiqIWZlxqZ3EQEtz4qaCQhM40ATaE2/MIA0zciQ8Ad3RyCxM68W KrhWcURCuaYNL1aBcr1NrPH9+oI48fUbUD/GErqtNXPS7urFWyF5p5bJkDL4gXXJS/HR bIKq0A+woHwRqHOx76DKuAA/m2BCzHHF93omA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date :message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=sDf5t0WaehLInCLBw+Ohnxhr7+9vUtboufYBYfvC1KzB6IumFBX6H0xAt0D3SSj78s nO+1tw/HLzr4Gd0cDqNNNxjycvGEKf9e5ZkhtJ69JKKXe0QetEi6BSUbQz3pwAgHBQFg IGpmhDyVmO1nrIbXMl/t42mZqbDerVeMd/9WM= Received: by 10.110.40.8 with SMTP id n8mr1777188tin.7.1213896009061; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.9? ( [124.157.244.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a14sm1202392tia.0.2008.06.19.10.20.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:20:08 -0700 (PDT) From: OutBackDingo To: hartzell@alerce.com In-Reply-To: <18522.35183.684254.289777@almost.alerce.com> References: <20080619003131.GF51002@dereel.lemis.com> <20080619032726.0603654b@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> <26ddd1750806181937y232d5b1dg5f84a66e81697b68@mail.gmail.com> <20080619034525.GA8205@shepherd> <18522.35183.684254.289777@almost.alerce.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:20:03 +0700 Message-Id: <1213896003.20035.19.camel@dingo-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How do they do their VPS product? [was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:20:11 -0000 the libvirt stuff might be a clue, a while back I designed a virtual system using libvirt and some ported linux code, which basiclaly acted as an enhanced chroot for apache, ftp, mail, pop3, imap. also NTT has a derivitive version of FreeBSD with hints at virtualization, im waiting for our Verio to be setup now, so once it is ill peruse it a bit On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 09:29 -0700, George Hartzell wrote: > Sahil Tandon writes: > > Maxim Khitrov wrote: > > > > > I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive > > > experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it > > > was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news. > > > > +1 for JC. The tech support and availability is unparalleled. Satisfied > > customer for over three years. > > Seeing JC advertise a FreeBSD VPS product reminded me of an itch I've > never been able to scratch. > > I know about jails at the simple end, and I know about VMware at the > complicated end, but I've never been able to figure out what technology > underlies the VPS offerings. > > I help out a friend on a Verio VPS that reports itself as FreeBSD 4.7 > w/ a kernel config file named VKERN. There's some concept of a > virtual root, a command named 'virtual' works a bit like sudo does for > credentials, and there's otherwise an odd mix of "it's all my machine" > and "it's a shared server". > > Is/was there some proprietary virtualization technology in the 4.x > days? Is it still alive and kicking somewhere? > > Anyone have any insights into how these VPS products were built? > > Thanks, > > g. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"