Advanced warning: virtualization work will be afoot

[Darren Reed]

Robert,

Do you have any more information about what the details of
this virtualization work will be?  e.g. will it be similar
to what Solaris has with zones?

The reason that I ask is that I've just finished getting
the ipfilter code (non-Sun code) converted to being zone
aware. What does that mean? Lots of global variables are
gone, replaced by soft-context structures that are allocated
and free'd when zones come alive/die.  For BSD, while all
of the code paths are the same, I'm currently only using
a single soft context and just pass around a pointer to
it.

If you're going to be doing similar work for FreeBSD, I
will try and get this into the tree sooner, rather than
later, so that there's one less component that you need
to worry about.

Cheers,
Darren
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  Darren Reed
  darrenr at fastmail.net