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Date:      Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:09:09 +0200
From:      Pierre Guinoiseau <geekounet@poildetroll.net>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-jail@freebsd.org, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Vimage vs. jails
Message-ID:  <4A8B3495.7010304@poildetroll.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A8B30D5.9000400@elischer.org>
References:  <20090818215721.23230@gmx.net> <4A8B30D5.9000400@elischer.org>

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Hi,

Julian Elischer wrote:
> 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
> 

BTW, when will we be able to set those new parameters in rc.conf? The
current jails rc script still uses the old way for setting up (or maybe
did I missed something?), so it doesn't allow to add those new
parameters. :( It may be a desirable feature for 8.0-RELEASE I think.

> 
>>
>> 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?
> 



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