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| OS/app in the OpenVZ container [message #44034] |
Thu, 10 November 2011 07:29  |
Tommy
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Hi All,
I'm doing some research on processing virtual machine recently.
As I what know now, I think OpenVZ vps runs the same OS kernel as the
host system.
The vps is a group of processes which are forked on the host system.
In the OpenVZ container, thera are some processes to run an os.
Is it possible to run only one App in the container instead of the os
based on the host os? such as a media player?
what are work should I need to do mainly?
could you give me some suggestion?
Thanks.
Tommy
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| Re: OS/app in the OpenVZ container [message #44035 is a reply to message #44034] |
Thu, 10 November 2011 08:22  |
Kirill Korotaev
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Yes, it's possible to run a single app in a container.
The easiest way is to let the startup scripts setup /proc, /sysfs and the rest of environment and then specify in inittab or rc.X what to run on this particular runlevel.
However, for media player you may also need to run some of X parts, not just a media player alone.
Thanks,
Kirill
On Nov 10, 2011, at 11:29 , Tommy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm doing some research on processing virtual machine recently.
>
> As I what know now, I think OpenVZ vps runs the same OS kernel as the host system.
> The vps is a group of processes which are forked on the host system.
> In the OpenVZ container, thera are some processes to run an os.
> Is it possible to run only one App in the container instead of the os based on the host os? such as a media player?
> what are work should I need to do mainly?
> could you give me some suggestion?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tommy
> --
> Yours Sincerely!
>
>
>
> <ATT00001.c>
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| Re: OS/app in the OpenVZ container [message #44036 is a reply to message #44035] |
Thu, 10 November 2011 08:59 |
Tommy
Messages: 9
Registered: November 2011
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于 2011/11/10 16:22, Kirill Korotaev 写道:
> Yes, it's possible to run a single app in a container.
> The easiest way is to let the startup scripts setup /proc, /sysfs and the rest of environment and then specify in inittab or rc.X what to run on this particular runlevel.
>
> However, for media player you may also need to run some of X parts, not just a media player alone.
>
> Thanks,
> Kirill
>
>
>
> On Nov 10, 2011, at 11:29 , Tommy wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm doing some research on processing virtual machine recently.
>>
>> As I what know now, I think OpenVZ vps runs the same OS kernel as the host system.
>> The vps is a group of processes which are forked on the host system.
>> In the OpenVZ container, thera are some processes to run an os.
>> Is it possible to run only one App in the container instead of the os based on the host os? such as a media player?
>> what are work should I need to do mainly?
>> could you give me some suggestion?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Tommy
>> --
>> Yours Sincerely!
>>
>>
>>
>> <ATT00001.c>
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hello,
I think I didn't describe my question clearly
If I want to start an app in the container, i should do the following step:
1.create a container ,start it and there is an Guest OS running in the
container now;
2.enter the container and start the app I want;
it acts as a system virtual machine
what i want to do is :
1.create the container
2.start the app in the container
this will act as a process virtual machine
any suggestion?
thanks
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| Re: OS/app in the OpenVZ container [message #44037 is a reply to message #44036] |
Thu, 10 November 2011 09:29 |
Stoyan Stoyanov
Messages: 11
Registered: November 2011
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If thats right you just need to isolate the application process/
processes ? So may be the best way is just chroot it in the standard
linux way. of course u can set limits too, but i don't thing it's
possible in os-virtualization level to run only application?
On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Tommy wrote:
> 于 2011/11/10 16:22, Kirill Korotaev 写道:
> Yes, it's possible to run a single app in a container.
> The easiest way is to let the startup scripts setup /proc, /sysfs
> and the rest of environment and then specify in inittab or rc.X what
> to run on this particular runlevel.
>
> However, for media player you may also need to run some of X parts,
> not just a media player alone.
>
> Thanks,
> Kirill
>
>
>
> On Nov 10, 2011, at 11:29 , Tommy wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm doing some research on processing virtual machine recently.
>
> As I what know now, I think OpenVZ vps runs the same OS kernel as
> the host system.
> The vps is a group of processes which are forked on the host system.
> In the OpenVZ container, thera are some processes to run an os.
> Is it possible to run only one App in the container instead of the
> os based on the host os? such as a media player?
> what are work should I need to do mainly?
> could you give me some suggestion?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tommy
> --
> Yours Sincerely!
>
>
>
> <ATT00001.c>
>
> hello,
>
> I think I didn't describe my question clearly
>
> If I want to start an app in the container, i should do the
> following step:
> 1.create a container ,start it and there is an Guest OS running
> in the container now;
> 2.enter the container and start the app I want;
>
> it acts as a system virtual machine
>
> what i want to do is :
> 1.create the container
> 2.start the app in the container
>
> this will act as a process virtual machine
>
> any suggestion?
>
> thanks
>
> --
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> Yours Sincerely!
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> <ATT00001.txt>
Stoyan Stoyanov
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| Re: OS/app in the OpenVZ container [message #44040 is a reply to message #44037] |
Thu, 10 November 2011 10:36 |
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On 11/10/2011 01:29 PM, Stoyan Stoyanov wrote:
> If thats right you just need to isolate the application process/
> processes ? So may be the best way is just chroot it in the standard
> linux way.
This way you will only isolate the file system (and not in totally
inescapable way I must add). chroot() is essentially a file system
namespace, and there are a dozen of others in OpenVZ, and then a dozen
of resource limits.
> of course u can set limits too, but i don't thing it's
> possible in os-virtualization level to run only application?
It is possible. As I noted in another reply to this thread, OpenVZ
kernel just runs /sbin/init inside the container and assumes that init
will handle the rest.
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>
> On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Tommy wrote:
>
> > 于 2011/11/10 16:22, Kirill Korotaev 写道:
> > Yes, it's possible to run a single app in a container.
> > The easiest way is to let the startup scripts setup /proc, /sysfs
> > and the rest of environment and then specify in inittab or rc.X what
> > to run on this particular runlevel.
> >
> > However, for media player you may also need to run some of X parts,
> > not just a media player alone.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kirill
> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 10, 2011, at 11:29 , Tommy wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm doing some research on processing virtual machine recently.
> >
> > As I what know now, I think OpenVZ vps runs the same OS kernel as
> > the host system.
> > The vps is a group of processes which are forked on the host system.
> > In the OpenVZ container, thera are some processes to run an os.
> > Is it possible to run only one App in the container instead of the
> > os based on the host os? such as a media player?
> > what are work should I need to do mainly?
> > could you give me some suggestion?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Tommy
> > --
> > Yours Sincerely!
> >
> >
> >
> > <ATT00001.c>
> >
> > hello,
> >
> > I think I didn't describe my question clearly
> >
> > If I want to start an app in the container, i should do the
> > following step:
> > 1.create a container ,start it and there is an Guest OS running
> > in the container now;
> > 2.enter the container and start the app I want;
> >
> > it acts as a system virtual machine
> >
> > what i want to do is :
> > 1.create the container
> > 2.start the app in the container
> >
> > this will act as a process virtual machine
> >
> > any suggestion?
> >
> > thanks
Kir Kolyshkin
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| Re: OS/app in the OpenVZ container [message #44044 is a reply to message #44035] |
Thu, 10 November 2011 12:16 |
mdfranz
Messages: 3
Registered: July 2011
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Junior Member |
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Tommy,
You might want to want to look at LXC as well. Although i agree that
is is pretty much impossible to run a single process, but it all
depends what you are trying to do...
(BTW, don't mean to start an LXC vs. OpenVZ flame was, because the
features/tools in VZ are much more mature but because LXC is fairly
primitive relative to VZ it might be an option)
- mdf
2011/11/10 Kirill Korotaev <dev@parallels.com>:
> Yes, it's possible to run a single app in a container.
> The easiest way is to let the startup scripts setup /proc, /sysfs and the rest of environment and then specify in inittab or rc.X what to run on this particular runlevel.
>
> However, for media player you may also need to run some of X parts, not just a media player alone.
>
> Thanks,
> Kirill
>
>
>
> On Nov 10, 2011, at 11:29 , Tommy wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm doing some research on processing virtual machine recently.
>>
>> As I what know now, I think OpenVZ vps runs the same OS kernel as the host system.
>> The vps is a group of processes which are forked on the host system.
>> In the OpenVZ container, thera are some processes to run an os.
>> Is it possible to run only one App in the container instead of the os based on the host os? such as a media player?
>> what are work should I need to do mainly?
>> could you give me some suggestion?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Tommy
>> --
>> Yours Sincerely!
>>
>>
>>
>> <ATT00001.c>
>
>
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mdfranz@gmail.com
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| Re: OS/app in the OpenVZ container [message #44084 is a reply to message #44040] |
Tue, 15 November 2011 07:50 |
Stoyan Stoyanov
Messages: 11
Registered: November 2011
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Junior Member |
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You may wonna take a look at this:
http://qubes-os.org/Architecture.html
On Nov 10, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
> On 11/10/2011 01:29 PM, Stoyan Stoyanov wrote:
> If thats right you just need to isolate the application process/
> processes ? So may be the best way is just chroot it in the standard
> linux way.
>
> This way you will only isolate the file system (and not in totally
> inescapable way I must add). chroot() is essentially a file system
> namespace, and there are a dozen of others in OpenVZ, and then a
> dozen of resource limits.
>
> of course u can set limits too, but i don't thing it's
> possible in os-virtualization level to run only application?
>
> It is possible. As I noted in another reply to this thread, OpenVZ
> kernel just runs /sbin/init inside the container and assumes that
> init will handle the rest.
>
>
>
> On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Tommy wrote:
>
> > 于 2011/11/10 16:22, Kirill Korotaev 写道:
> > Yes, it's possible to run a single app in a container.
> > The easiest way is to let the startup scripts setup /proc, /sysfs
> > and the rest of environment and then specify in inittab or rc.X what
> > to run on this particular runlevel.
> >
> > However, for media player you may also need to run some of X parts,
> > not just a media player alone.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kirill
> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 10, 2011, at 11:29 , Tommy wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm doing some research on processing virtual machine recently.
> >
> > As I what know now, I think OpenVZ vps runs the same OS kernel as
> > the host system.
> > The vps is a group of processes which are forked on the host system.
> > In the OpenVZ container, thera are some processes to run an os.
> > Is it possible to run only one App in the container instead of the
> > os based on the host os? such as a media player?
> > what are work should I need to do mainly?
> > could you give me some suggestion?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Tommy
> > --
> > Yours Sincerely!
> >
> >
> >
> > <ATT00001.c>
> >
> > hello,
> >
> > I think I didn't describe my question clearly
> >
> > If I want to start an app in the container, i should do the
> > following step:
> > 1.create a container ,start it and there is an Guest OS running
> > in the container now;
> > 2.enter the container and start the app I want;
> >
> > it acts as a system virtual machine
> >
> > what i want to do is :
> > 1.create the container
> > 2.start the app in the container
> >
> > this will act as a process virtual machine
> >
> > any suggestion?
> >
> > thanks
>
> <ATT00001.txt>
Stoyan Stoyanov
Core System Administrator
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| Re: OS/app in the OpenVZ container [message #44423 is a reply to message #44038] |
Wed, 07 December 2011 04:23 |
Enrico Weigelt
Messages: 31
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* Kir Kolyshkin <kir@openvz.org> wrote:
> It's pretty simple. What OpenVZ kernel does it creates a container and
> runs /sbin/init inside it. What goes next is up to that particular
> /sbin/init. If you need to run an app let /sbin/init run just it, or let
> this app be /sbin/init (but bear in mind there will be no child reaper
> as in usual linux system so you might need to take some extra care about
> zombie processes).
ACK.
The probably easiest way is to take some minimal OS image, so you also
get a shell, libc, and essential setups (mounting /proc and /sys), etc.
You'll most likely also need some little setup stuff to let your app
communicate with the outside world (eg. routing, filesystem access, etc).
Doing this all completely on your own takes a lot of more efforts,
but makes a good learning project :)
Some time ago (left it aside due lack of time), I've been working on
an kind of nano-distro for such use-cases, built with my Briegel
buildsystem (it crosscompiles tiny images which only include the
really essential stuff) . If you're really interested, I'd dig it
out again.
cu
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