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From: Jacques Gelinas (jack_at_solucorp.qc.ca)
Date: Wed 20 Mar 2002 - 20:49:00 GMT


  vserver 0.14
  Change log

  1. Enhancements

  1.1. chbind: broadcast address

  chbind accepts the --bcast option. It is supporting the new
  set_ipv4root which requires an IP number and a broadcast address.

  If you only specify the --ip option with a device, the broadcast
  address of the device is used. This is used namely in the
  /etc/init.d/v_xxxx services.

       /usr/sbin/chbind --ip eth0 /bin/sh

  the new chbind works on older kernel. The broadcast address is simply
  ignored.

  1.2. kernel 2.4.18ctx-9: set_ipv4root changed

  This new kernel enhances set_ipv4root a bit. This is not the multi-ip
  support yet though. This kernel allows application relying on
  broadcast to work in vservers. The trick is to assigned both an IP
  number and a broadcast address to a vserver. The socket handling for
  UDP was modified a little (one line in net/ipv4/udp.c) so an incoming
  packet is processed if it matched the vserver IP or the vserver
  broadcast address.

  There is no configuration changed to take advantage of that. You need
  the new kernel and vserver-0.14. Stuff like samba (which was already
  working in most cases) are now working completely. Even dhcpd works
  inside a vserver (see the FAQ though).

  So the set_ipv4root was changed, but the kernel sports a syscall
  versioning system and vserver-0.14 supports it. So vserver-0.14 works
  with any "ctx" kernel. The new kernel works also with older vserver
  utilities except the vserver broadcast address will be improperly
  assigned.

  1.3. vfiles: new utility

  The vfiles utility is used to extract the list of non-unifiable files
  in a vserver. The utility works like this

       /usr/sbin/vfiles reference-server server

  Using the output of this command, one may archive only the relevant
  part of a vserver. You can use this to move a vserver from one server
  to another. Only move few megs. On the target server, use vunify to
  fill the missing files. You must have a identical reference server on
  the target server though.
  Anyway, this is general purpose. Life may tell us if this is really
  useful :-)

  1.4. vps reworked

  vps was reworked a little. The previous version was not working on
  some distro. Test it out.

  1.5. vserver configuration file

  There are two new optional entries in /etc/vservers/*.conf:

  + IPROOTMASK: This is the netmask used to configure the IP alias. By
     default, it uses the netmask of the IPROOTDEV device.

  + IPROOTBCAST: This is the broadcast address used to configure the IP
     alias. Again, it uses the IPROOTDEV device settings by default.

     You generally do not need to assign those fields. Just upgrading to
     vserver 0.14 and restarting your vserver and the IP alias will be
     configure. This was an issue for some service (as seen on the
     mailing list). Prior version were always setting the netmask to
     255.255.255.255.

  1.6. vserver-stat and dynamic system calls

  The utility was using fixed system call numbers unlike the other
  vserver utilities. Fixed!

  1.7. v_xxxx services enhancements

  /etc/init.d/v_sendmail was added to the list. By default each v_xxxx
  service perform a chbind on the main eth0 address. For each service,
  you can setup a file called /etc/vservices/service.conf (one per
  service). In that file, you can specify a different IP or device.

       IP=x.y.z.w

  The extra configuration file is optional.

---------------------------------------------------------
Jacques Gelinas <jack_at_solucorp.qc.ca>
vserver: run general purpose virtual servers on one box, full speed!
http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc


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