Linux-VServer 1.0 released

Dear LWN,

I don't know if you saw this - the Linux-VServer 1.0 release (see Herbert's
email below). There have been at least 3 years of development till now.

VServer is a very cool project, a bit like UML but with a much better
architecture for shared hosting environments. It was originally written by
Jack Gelinas (of Linuxconf fame) and is now maintained by Herbert Pötzl.
Linus recently reserved a syscall for the context stuff, so it might go into
the mainline kernel sometime soon.

Project webpage/docs are big on quantity but small on quality and simplicity
at the moment.
See http://linux-vserver.org/

Cheers,
Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: vserver-admin-AT-list.linux-vserver.org
[mailto:vserver-admin-AT-list.linux-vserver.org] On Behalf Of Herbert Poetzl
Sent: Sunday, 2 November 2003 7:07 AM
To: vserver-AT-list.linux-vserver.org
Subject: [Vserver] Linux-VServer 1.0 stable release ...



Hi Community!

the first linux-vserver stable release (1.0)
is available at 

  http://www.13thfloor.at/vserver/s_release/v1.0/

you can download all-in-one patches for 2.4.20/21/22
as well as tar archives of the splitups ...

vserver-0.23/24 tools work with this release as well
as the util-vserver-0.23.96 and later ...

jack will hopefully release some up-to-date tools 
soon (he promised, but if not I'll do so ;)

it should be quite simple to replace any ctx17/a/b/c
and c17/c17a/c17e/c17f release with those patches,
so I will not support them any longer ...

this release includes the following:

 - Immutable Linkage Invert
 - the context stuff (chcontext)
 - the network stuff (chbind)
 - process/scheduler flags
 - the quota capability

it doesn't include:

 - chrootsafe()
 - signal context
 - context tagging
 - per context quota
 - per context disk limits
 - per context memory limits
 - fake meminfo
 - per context uptime
 - context capabilities
 - O(1) scheduler
 - rmap15k VM
 - proc restrictions
 - vroot device
 - the new syscall switch

some of those features are considered
stable and will be available as separate 
patches soon, and if I get enough feedback
they will be included in the next stable
release ...

the pages are not complete yet, so please be
gentle, and give me some time ...

enjoy,
Herbert


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