Documentation

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Introduction

• Virtualization Overview
• Usage Scenarios
• Feature Matrix

Installation

• Installation Considerations
• Installation on Linux 2.6
• Installation on ArchLinux
• Installation on CentOS
• Installation on Debian
• Installation on Fedora
• some small howto for Fedorro TM os
• Installation on Gentoo
• Installation on Mandrake
• Installation on PLD-Linux
• Installation on Redhat
• Installation on Slackware
• Installation on SuSE/OpenSUSE
• Installation on Ubuntu

Configuration

• util-vserver Documentation
• VServer Control Daemon Documentation
• How to patch vyum
• Upgrading existing installations to yum-3.2.4
• Share a directory among multiple vserver guests

Guides and Howtos

• Howto virtualize an existing Linux server
• VCMD HowTo
• Howto make Bsd-style init sysv-compatible (archlinux guest system)
• Installing 32-bit Fedora on 64-bit Debian
• Installing Ubuntu on Debian
• Installing an openSUSE vserver guest
• Networking vserver guests

Lists & Theory

• Basic configuration
  • Capabilities and Flags
  • CPU Scheduler
  • Disk Limits and Quota
  • Resource Limits
    • Memory Limits
  • Virtual System Information
  • Unification

• Security Considerations
  • Secure Capabilities
  • Secure chroot Barrier
  • Secure Device Nodes
  • Secure ProcFS Entries

• Performance and Stability
  • Virtualization Overhead

• Implementation Details
  • Context Accounting
  • Filesystem Attributes
  • Filesystem Tagging
  • Filesystem Namespaces
  • Kernel Userspace Helper
  • Mainline Kernel Virtualization
  • ProcFS
  • Syscall Command Switch

External Resources