From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 18 22:53:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 295F1106568F for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:53:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from outC.internet-mail-service.net (outc.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1315D8FC3F for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:53:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from idiom.com (mx0.idiom.com [216.240.32.160]) by out.internet-mail-service.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B5A6B3F80; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:53:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (home.elischer.org [216.240.48.38]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D272D6016; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A8B30D5.9000400@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:53:09 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Cornelius References: <20090818215721.23230@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20090818215721.23230@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vimage vs. jails X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:53:10 -0000 it's not Vimage vs Jails but Vimage as part of Jails. Peter Cornelius wrote: > Hi there, > > I just see the vimage changes going into RELENG_8 and I now am > getting my hands dirty, finally. So thanks to all involved. > > Just to get my head around this the right way, I understand that > there is no plan to merge vimage and jail into a single jail > utility, right? Actually it IS now all one utility... Add the 'vnet' option to jail to get it to create a new vnet withthe jail, otherwise it acts as before. > > I may want a large number of vimages "w/o" jails, or at least a > number of jails "inside" a couple of vimages (reason being the > default route issue raised a while ago). can you expand on that? example comand lines include: jail -c host.hostname=test path=/ vnet command=/bin/tcsh ( make a jail with the same root as normal but with a separate network stack.) jail -c host.hostname=test path=/ vnet children.max=4 \ command=/bin/tcsh (same as above, excep the jail made is in turn able to make up to 4 child jails > > Thanks again, and > > All the best, > > Peter. > > --- > > PS. I see a couple of lock order reversals on RELENG_8 which I > would like to report if the build currently running did not address > them -- do we prefer them to a mailing list or to gnats?