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[Daniel Salinas <imsplitbit@xxxxxxxxx>]

All of these are correct.  The other piece of that is that OpenVz is much
more mature and it's tooling is as well.  That being said we aren't
tightly coupled to any one technology so when LXC appears to meet our
needs we can visit that at that time.

Daniel

On 4/24/11 5:25 PM, "Edward Konetzko" <konetzed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 04/24/2011 10:16 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>> Daniel Morris wrote:
>>> The initial architecture of this service is being designed around
>>> several technologies listed below
>>>
>>> ·       *Open Stack Compute (Nova) *
>>>
>>> ·       *OpenVZ*- OpenVZ is a container based virtualization technology
>>> that ensures guaranteed resource minimums and maximums delivering
>>> exceptional performance from a MySQL server, comparable to a bare metal
>>> box.
>>
>> Hey Daniel,
>>
>> That's an exciting project indeed. I was wondering about the choice of
>> OpenVZ as the container technology: Nova supports LXC containers at this
>> point, and not OpenVZ ones. Any particular reason why LXC containers
>> cannot fit the bill for you ?
>>
>
>Terry
>
>LXC was a preferred choice as it is in the kernel but at the moment it
>is lacking several features mainly migrations and resource management.
>LXC is using cgroups for resource management but it is not as fine
>grained or as easy to administer as openvz resource management.  There
>may have been a few other reasons for the choice but those are the main
>ones I can think of.
>
>
>Edward
>
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