[RFC] 0/3 Add Linux Container support to libvirt

Dave Leskovec <dlesko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:24:18 -0800

The following set of patches add the first batch of linux container 
support to libvirt.  The work is not complete but I wanted to start 
getting some of this out for comments.  This set of patches supports the 
following:

* new switch --with-lxc to enable linux container support (off by default)
* virConnectOpen
* virConnectClose
* virConnectListDomains (of course none are listed since we can't start 
the containers yet)
* virConnectNumOfDomains
* virConnectListDefinedDomains
* virConnectNumOfDefinedDomains
* virDomainLookupByUUID
* virDomainLookupByName
* virDomainGetInfo
* virDomainGetXMLDesc
* virDomainDefineXML
* virDomainUndefine

A sample XML format that can be used to define a linux container domain:
<domain type='linuxcontainer'>
   <name>TestContainer3</name>
   <container>
       <filesystem type='mount'>
           <source dir='/home/user/lxc_files/etc/'/>
           <target dir='/etc/'/>
       </filesystem>
       <filesystem type='mount'>
           <source dir='/home/user/lxc_files/var/'/>
           <target dir='/var/'/>
       </filesystem>
       <init>/usr/sbin/container_init</init>
   </container>
   <memory>65536</memory>
   <devices>
       <console tty='/dev/pts/4'/>
   </devices>
</domain>

I've left out the network definition as I'll be tackling that a little 
later on...

I'm currently working on starting a container.

Any and all questions and comments are welcome.

Thanks!

--
Best Regards,
Dave Leskovec
IBM Linux Technology Center
Open Virtualization

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