Quoting Pavel Emelyanov (xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx): > Fixing the bogus containers@ ml and adding cgroups@ one. Sorry :( > > == Original message == > > Hi! > > I'm glad to announce the first release of the checkpoint-restore tool. > > > This project is an attempt to implement the checkpoint-restore functionality > for processes and containers without driving too much code into the kernel tree, > but putting there "various oddball helper code" instead. > > The tool can already be used for checkpointing and restoring various individual > applications. And the greatest thing about this so far is that most of the below > functionality has the required kernel support in the recently released v3.5! > > So, we support now > > * x86_64 architecture > * process' linkage > * process groups and sessions (without ttys though :\ ) > * memory mappings of any kind (shared, file, etc.) > * threads > * open files (shared between tasks and partially opened-and-unlinked) > * pipes and fifos with data > * unix sockets with packet queues contents > * TCP and UDP sockets (TCP connections support exists, but needs polishing) > * inotifies, eventpoll and eventfd > * tasks' sigactions setup, credentials and itimers > * IPC, mount and PID namespaces > > Though namespaces support is in there, we do not yet support an LXC container c/r, > but we're close to it :) > > > I'd like to thank everyone who took part in new kernel APIs discussions, the > feedback was great! Special thanks goes to Linus for letting the kernel parts > in early, instead of making them sit out of tree till becoming stable enough. > > > Tarball with the tool sources is at > > http://download.openvz.org/criu/crtools-0.1.tar.bz2 > > The git repo is at > > http://git.criu.org/ > > And some sort of docs growing at > > http://criu.org/ > > > There are still things for which we don't have the kernel support merged (SysVIPC > and various anon file descriptors, i.e. inotify, eventpoll, eventfd) yet. We have > the kernel branch with the stuff applied available at > > https://github.com/cyrillos/linux-2.6.git > > > Thanks, > Pavel Awesome - thanks, Pavel, and congratulations :) I'll have to give it a spin as soon as I get a chance. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
