GSoC Ideas
Google Summer of Code Ideas[edit]
Minimalistic Web Frontend[edit]
Userspace, php or similar
Web Frontend or Framework to do basic administrational tasks like
- creating and destroying guests
- starting and stopping guests
- monitor status and resources
libvirt Integration and Testing[edit]
Userspace, scripting, testing
preliminary work exists, probably needs to be adapted to recent versions and integrated with the libvirt folks.
iptables proxy and policy daemon[edit]
Kernelside proxy, Userspace policy daemon
Linux-VServer uses IP Isolation, so things like iptables cannot be allowed inside a guest without applying some sanity checks and general host policy.
Part of this is a kernel side proxy mechanism, which will relay the netlink commands issued from e.g. iptables inside a guest to a policy daemon running on the host.
The other part is the policy daemon which has to check the requests for plausibility, and if applicable implement them in a way which doesn't harm the host or other guests (e.g. on a separate chain).
hard limits for CFS scheduler[edit]
Kernel modification (target upstream)
Linux-VServer implements a Token Bucket (TB) scheduler extension which sits ontop of the Linux scheduler able to limit the CPU resources on a per guest basis.
Recent Linux provides a Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) which is missing a hard limit feature, which should be implemented in way that mainline (kernel.org) can make use of it.