Re: [RFC] Virtualization steps

[Nick Piggin]

Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> > Yes... about that; if/when namespaces get into the kernel, you guys
> > are going to start pushing all sorts of per-container resource
> > control, right? Or will you be happy to leave most of that to VMs?
>
>
> Nick, OpenVZ, for example, uses "User Bean Counters" patch originally 
> developed by Alan Cox. The good thing is that it is fully separate from 
> virtualization and allows to control any users or set of processes. 
> Don't you think it is valuable and helpful feature itself? Why are you 
> afraid of resource management?

I'm afraid of resource management because I've seen things like the
ckrm cpu resource manager.

Considering we tend to mostly have only per-process resource management,
low level virtualisation seems like a much better place to do this.

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