On 3/13/15 14:18 , William Deigaard via smartos-discuss wrote: > Christopher, > > I’m not in the best position to test this just yet, but I’d be extremely > interested in whether or not perfSONAR[1] could run in an lx-branded zone. > It’s typically deployed on a Centos image (liveCD/LiveUSB/native install) and > requires some additional kernel extensions to gather the necessary data for > monitoring a number of network performance aspects, but if it works (and does > so at near wire speed), it would be awesome. > > I know from my perspective that being able to deploy perfSONAR in a zone (and > therefore being able to deploy multiple perfSONARs in the same “system”) > would be very interesting for high-performance network testing and monitoring > at research institutions (perhaps just mine, but I bet others would adopt > it). Many institutions are working hard to deploy Science DMZ[2] networks to > support frictionless data flows for research collaboration and processing. > > Also, now that many universities have 100G links between them, being able to > spin up high-performance, wire-speed cloud-like service infrastructures could > be come quite handy (insert Joyent here).
Unfortunately, you're not able to load arbitrary Linux kernel modules inside of a zone. We actually don't run a Linux kernel at all with the lx brand -- it's all translated into native illumos functionality at the system call boundary. At the end of the day for something like this you'd need to have a native illumos kernel module. So given that, I'd be surprised if it worked inside of a zone. Robert ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
