GSoC Ideas

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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.