[systemd-devel] Last question about systemd before my presentation

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Thu Dec 12 06:43:36 PST 2013


On Wed, 11.12.13 16:33, Cecil Westerhof (Cecil.Westerhof at Snow.nl) wrote:

> 
> On 12/05/2013 08:39 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >>When virtual machines are implementd as a service. You need to let
> >>the host define the limits per guest I suppose?
> >
> >Not following?
> >
> >You can pack as many services in a slice as you want, and you can create
> >a tree of slices, so that you can run a couple of services against a
> >common set of resource limits.
> 
> What I mend was the following:
> As I understood it, there are Virtual Machine solutions that are
> implemented as a service.
> When there are several VM's running in this service and one of those
> should get a lot more from the processor as the rest, then it is not
> something that could be taken care of by systemd, but should be done
> by the service that provides the Virtual Machine itself.

virtual machine managers which want to make use of resource management
for their VMs should create "scope" units for them, which is oart of the
cgroup rework.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ControlGroupInterface/

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat


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