[FUG-BR] Fw: [FreeBSD-Announce] Foundation Announces Jail Based Virtualization Project

[Luiz Gustavo]

Jail vai matar a pau agora !!!! quero ver segurar o FreeBSD !!!


Luiz Gustavo - BSD/Linux User
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--- On Thu, 6/10/10, Deb Goodkin <deb em freebsdfoundation.org> wrote:

> From: Deb Goodkin <deb em freebsdfoundation.org>
> Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Foundation Announces Jail Based Virtualization Project
> To: freebsd-announce em freebsd.org
> Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 1:21 PM
> Dear FreeBSD Community,
> 
> We are pleased to announce that Bjoern A. Zeeb has been
> awarded a grant to improve FreeBSD's jail based
> virtualization infrastructure and to continue to work on the
> virtual network stack. His employer, CK Software GmbH is
> matching the Foundation's funding with hours.
> 
> FreeBSD has been well known for its jail based
> virtualization during the last decade. With the import of
> the virtual network stack, FreeBSD's operating system level
> virtualization has reached a new level.
> 
> This project includes cleanup of two years of import work
> and development and, more notably, brings the infrastructure
> for a network stack teardown. Cleanly shutting down a
> network stack in FreeBSD will be the major challenge in the
> virtualization area to get the new feature to production
> ready quality for the 9.x release
> lifecycle.
> 
> Further, the project includes generalization of the virtual
> network stack framework, factoring out common code. This
> will provide an infrastructure and will ease virtualization
> of further subsystems like SYSV/Posix IPC with minimal
> overhead. All further virtualized subsystems will
> immediately benefit from shared debugging facilities, an
> essential feature for early adopters of the new technology.
> 
> "Improved jail based virtualization support, that continues
> to be very lightweight and as easily manageable as classic
> jails, will be a killer feature for the next few years,"
> said Bjoern A. Zeeb, FreeBSD developer.
> He also added, "It will allow people to partition their
> FreeBSD server, run simulations without racks of hardware,
> or provide thousands of virtual instances in hosting
> environments fairly easy and efficiently. While this follows
> the trend of green computing, it also adds to FreeBSD's
> virtualization portfolio with Xen or other more heavyweight
> hypervisor support, which can be mixed with jails as
> needed."
> 
> While work in this area will have to continue, the funding
> for this project will end mid-July 2010.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> The FreeBSD Foundation
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