svn commit: r193166 - in head/sys: kern net sys

[Julian Elischer]

Marko Zec wrote:
> Author: zec
> Date: Sun May 31 12:10:04 2009
> New Revision: 193166
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193166
> 
> Log:
>   Introduce an interm userland-kernel API for creating vnets and
>   assigning ifnets from one vnet to another.  Deletion of vnets is not
>   yet supported.
>   
>   The interface is implemented as an ioctl extension so that no syscalls
>   had to be introduced.  This should be acceptable given that the new
>   interface will be used for a short / interim period only, until the
>   new jail management framwork gains the capability of managing vnets.
>   This method for managing vimages / vnets has been in use for the past
>   7 years without any observable issues.
>   
>   The userland tool to be used in conjunction with the interim API can be
>   found in p4: //depot/projects/vimage-commit2/src/usr.sbin/vimage/... and
>   will most probably never get commited to svn.

please check the tool into tools where it can be gotten too easily.


in: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/tools/tools/

we can remove them when we transition to the jamie's front-end.