On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:27:42AM -0400, Daniel Clark wrote: > Has anyone made a LiveCD for Linux-VServer?
as mentioned on IRC, Knoppix should have some support for booting a Linux-VServer enabled kernel, although I do not have the details and/or know what version ... > If not, any hints/tips/warnings/recommendations for an OS base? > > I am looking for a way to demo a client/server application, and > Linux-VServer with the vunify functionality at first glance looks > like it could be ideal. > > The CD itself would have the minimal OS and vserver-enabled kernel, > and vunifiy-ed filesystems of the server and clients (which wouldn't > differ by that much), and any changes during the run would be written > to ramdisk. > > Based on a previous thread it sounded like Linux-VServer has its own > Copy-on-Write (CoW) functionality, removing the need for unionfs/aufs > for the virtual machines themselves (although I assume you'd still > want it enabled in a small ram disk for the rest of the CD). yes and no, CoW Link Breaking is there, which is probably not what you have in mind when you talk about unionfs ... i.e. it allows you to have hard linked files on a read-write filesystem which will be copied (on demand) by the kernel when written to ... nevertheless, I can easily imagine having a tmpfs based demo setup with a bunch of Linux-VServer guests (they can be as small as 20MB, but usually will take 180-220MB) utilizing unification to run a number of them (10-30) completely from RAM ... so keep brain storming/asking/checking ... best, Herbert > -- > Daniel Clark # http://dclark.us # http://opensysadmin.com > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
