Subject: Re: [vserver] Roadmap and Future ...
From: ADNET Ghislain <gadnet@aqueos.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:19:24 +0100
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:19:24 +0100
Dallas Kashuba a écrit :
>
> On Feb 26, 2009, at 7:30 AM, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>
>> One proposal I have (which was actually tested over
>> the years, and seems to work - at least for me) would
>> be that Companies using Linux-VServer get some kind
>> of 'Service Contract' with a Developer (which is a
>> good thing anyway), ranging between a single hour
>> per month up to a day per week, for, let's say 100
>> EUR per hour, which can be consumed or not, where in
>> the latter case, this time will be spent on general
>> Linux-VServer development and testing. (if you like
>> that idea, please contact me and I'm certain we can
>> arrange something)
>>
>> The big advantage over occasional donations is that
>> the developer can 'somewhat' rely on that income and
>> does not need to 'hope' for an upcoming donation.
>
>
> I think you are on the right track here as far as making it possible 
> to spend more of your available time on the project.  DreamHost 
> currently provides some amount of ongoing financial support to several 
> open source projects we rely on and would also be interested in this 
> case.
>
>
>> Now for the Roadmap:
>>
>> I think what we need most in the near future is a
>> new, well tested stable release, which can be adopted
>> by distributions and which will be maintained for
>> a reasonable amount of time, and that's actually what
>> I'm working on whenever time permits.
>>
>> New features will mainly include adaptations of 'old'
>> features, lost and forgotten over time, and improve-
>> ments on the mainline integration (like cgroups and
>> such), as well as some virtualizations to simplify
>> handling and make it more guest friendly.
>>
>> One upcoming mainline feature which I will try to
>> integrate as soon as it is available is the check-
>> pointing and resume functionality.
>>
>> I also plan to do a web frontend to control basic
>> functionality and a minimalistic host distribution
>> to run Linux-VServer Guests on, but I have no idea
>> when I will find time for that.
>>
>> Finally, as usual, input here is welcome, so if you
>> have an isolation feature you want to see really soon,
>> or further questions, please let me know.
>
>
> When I first started using Linux-Vserver the biggest obstacle was lack 
> of clear documentation. Once I figured out which documents could tell 
> me what, it got easier.  Right now, though, there's a lack of 
> documentation on how to use the newer cgroup-based scheduling.  In my 
> opinion, the biggest weakness of the project today is a lack of 
> organized documentation.  That is clearly something that could be done 
> by a volunteer and it's perhaps not the absolute best use of time for 
> one of the programmers, but on the other hand it does need to be done 
> by somebody.
>
>
>     Dallas
>
>
that is why i try to document everything i do with vserver on the wiki.

http://linux-vserver.org/util-vserver:Cgroups (that is really a mini 
draft !! )
http://linux-vserver.org/util-vserver:Cheatsheet

any help is welcome here !

I follow the same route as you, hard to find docs you can just read the 
source to have it. Support on IRC is awesome but it's so 90's, few 
people will go there and  also we take precious time from Bertl and 
Daniel there.

  IF you have some internal docs about what you overcome please share it 
on the wiki. I spent hours trying to figure out the setting for cgroup 
to work with the vserver-util (yes i am a slow learner even with daniel 
and bertl's help...) so i shared it on a draft page on the wiki as soon 
as i had it working :)

-- 
Cordialement,
Ghislain



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