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Containers/Mini-summit 2008 notes

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Amy Griffis, HP
Dhaval Giani, IBM
Peter Zijlstra
(Later walk-ins):
Why do various companies want containers?
ibmIBM, Google: workload management
EB: using containers as improved chroot
HP: wants similar to ibm, plus security
if we can do sys_hijack cleanly,
we can use it to solve kthread problem
 
== Control Groups and Resource Management ==
== Checkpoint/Restart [CR] ==
requires the kernel to expose a very fine-grained API.
Everyone (except DaveHansen) agreed to aim at a monolithic interface, such that nearlyall of the CR will be done in the kernel. The kernel will return(checkpoint) or receive (restart) a blob with the image of the stateof the container.
* '''Kernel-module ?'''
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