Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 15:27:17 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com> To: Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org> Cc: virtualization@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: VIMAGE Message-ID: <49FEDF25.9060901@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <49FE5937.3000606@FreeBSD.org> References: <20090413.220932.74699777.sthaug@nethelp.no> <49E57076.7040509@elischer.org> <20090424202923.235660@gmx.net> <200904242249.27640.zec@icir.org> <20090425133006.311010@gmx.net> <20090502131259.31160@gmx.net> <49FC78DA.2010201@elischer.org> <20090503103244.44760@gmx.net> <49FDD9B9.7090403@elischer.org> <49FDDD02.3090803@gmx.com> <49FE5937.3000606@FreeBSD.org>
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Jamie Gritton wrote: > Jails will be able to exist without processes, and in fact with nothing > more than a vimage attached. Ah that's what I was looking for. But much of vimage only makes sense in > conjunction with processes - a process attached to a vimage can see that > vimage's network interfaces. There are still things like routing that > work independent of processes I suppose, but it seems to me much what a > vimage does is provide the network stack to the processes it's tied to. Yet, VIMAGE is very similar in concept with VRF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRF) and I think FreeBSD will look very promising in router-like applications:) Maybe there are applications of VIMAGE which haven't been considered by its developers. Time will tell... Nikos
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