On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 09:04:52PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> In summary: I believe that containers are a big part of being awesome in
> the cloud. And right now running Fedora inside a container is not that
> great an experience. It kinda works, but it's very very rough around the
> edges.
Thanks Lennart. I agree, this is an important aspect.
> Yes, I know I should have subscribed to the ML and posted that there,
> but I am soooo lazy to do that for one mail only... I apologize.
Not a problem -- this list is good too, because ultimately it's going to
affect everyone. I'm happy to engage community members, developers, and
users not just in my "home space" but in theirs as well. :)
If I may jump in, I was active in Fedora some years ago as the
maintainer for the KVM related
packages, firmwares, etc.
I recently reactivated my account, with the intention of packaging
OpenVZ for Fedora
(
http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page)
OpenVZ is a very mature piece of containers technology, regularly used
and commercially supported
in production for quite a while now. Its main disadvantage is that it
require a patched kernel to properly
function.
I recently, however, modified the tools (which is what I intend to
package) so they will run with a standard
distro kernel, with limited functionality. I am, with some colleagues,
also working extensively upstream to port
all technologies to Linux Upstream. We are very close, for instance,
to achieving live migration support.
Seconding what Lennart said, I hope to be able with this to improve
Fedora's container experience, which I also
view as crucial for a deep cloud strategy. I hope this is good news
for at least a part of you guys!
cya soon
--
Sent from my Atari.