RFC: Enabling VIMAGE in GENERIC

Peter Ross Peter.Ross at alumni.tu-berlin.de
Wed Nov 19 03:07:33 UTC 2014


On Sun, 16 Nov 2014, Craig Rodrigues wrote:

>  (4)  Not everyone uses bhyve.  FreeBSD jails are an excellent virtualization
>        platform for FreeBSD.  Jails are still very popular and
>        performant.  VIMAGE makes jails even better by allowing per-jail
>        network stacks.

I am using jails and VIMAGE for ca. 4 years, btw.

On the other side of the fence (see Linux) containers became quite popular with 
Docker and are also used for process management and separation (systemd e.g.)

Just to add this as a motivation for using jails and possibly VIMAGE, from a 
sysadmin perspective.

Regards
Peter


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