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"image"
“image” is the working title of a kernel virtualization project first discussed at EuroBSDCon2006DevSummit in Milan. The terminology used nowadays is VIMAGE for the subsystem virtualization framework and VNET for the virtual network stack.
Notes from devsummits
- Notes from the EuroBSDCon devsummit 2006: NotesEuroBSDConDevsummit2006
- Notes from the EuroBSDCon hackathon 2007: NotesEuroBSDConHackathon2007
- Notes from the BSDCan devsummit 2008: see http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/200805DevSummit/
- Notes from the Developer Summit 200808: Notes200808DevSummit
- Notes from the Developer Summit 200810: Notes200810DevSummit
- Notes from the Developer Summit 200905: Notes200905DevSummit
Some documentation
Basic FAQ-like documentation on the vimage virtualization code, if you want to get an overview, can be found here: BeginnersGuideFAQVImage kernel options during the transition and for the final product KernelOptions- An unsorted braindump of a TODO list.
- Sample shell commands on how to create vnets VNETSamples
- Contributions on how to run Linux in Jails
Related work
- http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//&c=lgB@//depot/projects/vimage/?ac=83 Perforce development branch with some documentation
- http://imunes.tel.fer.hr/imunes/ IMUNES - a scalable network topology emulator
- http://cs.itd.nrl.navy.mil/work/core/ Common Open Research Emulator (CORE)