Re: [OpenAFS] AFS in a solaris 10 zone? How about Linux/Xen VM?

2005-03-30 Thread Dan Pritts
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:54:23AM -0500, Robert Banz wrote: Near as I can tell, the only way to get AFS in a solaris zone is to run afsd in the global zone. This is because zones are not full virtualization, but merely isolation from other processes and the fair-share scheduler to allocate

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS in a solaris 10 zone? How about Linux/Xen VM?

2005-03-30 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:45:24 AM -0500 Dan Pritts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:54:23AM -0500, Robert Banz wrote: Near as I can tell, the only way to get AFS in a solaris zone is to run afsd in the global zone. This is because zones are not full virtualization,

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS in a solaris 10 zone? How about Linux/Xen VM?

2005-03-23 Thread Robert Banz
Near as I can tell, the only way to get AFS in a solaris zone is to run afsd in the global zone. This is because zones are not full virtualization, but merely isolation from other processes and the fair-share scheduler to allocate resources to the zones. I have not tried it, but it seems like

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS in a solaris 10 zone? How about Linux/Xen VM?

2005-03-22 Thread Pavel Semerad
Hi all - I'm looking at various server virtualization techniques and two options that look very interesting are the zones in solaris 10, and Linux/Xen. Direct competitor to solaris zones in linux is http://linux-vserver.org/ . I am using this and it works. AFS client is running in

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS in a solaris 10 zone? How about Linux/Xen VM?

2005-03-22 Thread Pavel Semerad
In theory the AFS servers ought to work in a solaris 10 zone. I really hope that part works at least, as I would like to do so myself. (I have a 6-cpu E3000 sitting here doing very little, and I'd like to put an AFS fileserver on it in a zone) Namei fileserver should work, about inode

[OpenAFS] AFS in a solaris 10 zone? How about Linux/Xen VM?

2005-03-21 Thread Dan Pritts
Hi all - I'm looking at various server virtualization techniques and two options that look very interesting are the zones in solaris 10, and Linux/Xen. Anyone know if I can get at the AFS filesystem in either of these? I don't really know anything about the solaris zones so i am not sure what

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS in a solaris 10 zone? How about Linux/Xen VM?

2005-03-21 Thread Ben Staffin
* Dan Pritts [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-21 17:42] wibbled: Hi all - I'm looking at various server virtualization techniques and two options that look very interesting are the zones in solaris 10, and Linux/Xen. Anyone know if I can get at the AFS filesystem in either of these? I

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS in a solaris 10 zone? How about Linux/Xen VM?

2005-03-21 Thread Chris Huebsch
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Dan Pritts wrote: From what I understand of Linux Xen i'd think it *ought* to work but what i can imagine all sorts of pitfalls... I think so too. I have set up an Athlon XP2200+ with 512 MB Ram to host 8 XEN-Instances. Each was running a Heimdal-Server. They were running