virtualization revision 1.4.6.1
1$NetBSD: virtualization,v 1.4.6.1 2012/04/17 00:02:56 yamt Exp $ 2 3NetBSD Virtualization Roadmap 4============================= 5 6This is a small roadmap document, and deals with the virtualization 7side of the operating system. 8 9Features that will be in 6.0: 101. NetBSD/usermode 115. Xen domU migration, suspend and resume 126. Xen balloon driver support 13 14Features which may make future releases: 152. virtualization jails via secmodel 163. iSCSI booting 174. iSCSI device cloning 18 19We'll continue to update this roadmap as features and dates get firmed up. 20 21 22Some explanations 23================= 24 251. NetBSD/usermode 26------------------ 27 28NetBSD/usermode is an port of NetBSD to a POSIX-compatible user-space, 29with the intention that it should be possible to run the usermode 30version of NetBSD on any POSIX-compatible operating system. This code 31has been committed to the repository by jmcneill, and updated by reinoud 32and jmcneill. usermode can now boot up to X11, can use a vnc console, 33and is under active development now. This is most definitely in 6.0. 34 35Responsible: jmcneill, reinoud 36 372. Virtualization Jails via secmodel 38------------------------------------ 39 40One novel way of creating jails for virtualization is to use a new 41secmodel (part of the kauth framework), to isolate processes into 42jail-based virtual machines. This is the basis of a paper given by 43bad@ at AsiaBSDcon in March 2008. This will not make 6.0 44 45Responsible: bad 46 473. iSCSI booting 48---------------- 49 50In order to make Xen domains migration-friendly, the storage that the 51domain uses must be based on some form of network-centric storage, either 52NFS, or a SAN or IP-SAN. For IP-SANs, iSCSI booting will be used. This 53is dependent on the in-kernel iSCSI initiator project completing. This will not make 6.0 54 55Responsible: agc 56 574. iSCSI device cloning 58----------------------- 59 60To minimise the storage requirements for multiple domU booting, using 61a standard root filesystem or block device for the domU is required, along 62with some form of copy-on-write mechanism to preserve any modifications 63that are made. This will not make 6.0 64 65Responsible: agc 66 675. Xen domU migration, suspend and resume 68----------------------------------------- 69 70Xen domU migration is where a domU domain is moved from one dom0 to 71another dom0 on the same vlan (to avoid networking problems, the 72virtual arp address migrates with the domU itself). jym has committed 73this code, and it will be in 6.0 74 75Responsible: jym, bouyer 76 776. Xen balloon driver support 78----------------------------- 79 80The balloon driver allows more memory to be added to a running Xen domU 81instance; this allows extra memory to be used by the domU for resource 82peak needs. cherry has made a preliminary balloon driver and this has been 83further updated and tested by jym. This will be in 6.0. 84 85Responsible: jym, cherry 86 87 88Alistair Crooks 89Sat Jan 14 11:38:50 PST 2012 90