On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 05:04:25AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 04:20:14PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > This is something I previously submitted as part of one of the LXC > > patches, but I figure it makes sense on its own, since OpenVZ needs > > this now too. > > > > This adds two new XML elements to the domain XML format: > > Yep this was discussed at the time when the old OpenVZ format was > on the table. Looks fine to me > > > - An <init> block within <os> allowing specification of the path for > > a binary to run when starting the container - aka 'init' by any other > [...] > > - An <filesystem> element for specifying how the container's filesystem > > is to be provided. This can actually be useful for full-machine virt > [...] > > eg to use a template called 'fedora9web' as the root filesystem for > > a container > > > > <filesystem type='template'> > > <source name='fedora9web'/> > > <target dir='/'/> > > </filesystem> > > I think the template type is the only concept which is really OpenVZ > specific (so far) everything else makes sense on a more general basis > as long a the hypervisor expose a notion of filesystem and not just block > devices. I believe Linux-VServer uses this template capability as well. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list