Device Namespaces

Janne Karhunen janne.karhunen at gmail.com
Thu Sep 26 08:25:56 UTC 2013


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

>> In summary the situation with device hoptlug and containers sucks today,
>> and we need to do something.  Running a linux desktop in a container is
>> a reasonably good example use case.
>
> No it isn't.  I'd argue that this is a horrible use case, one that you
> shouldn't do.  Why not just use multi-head machines like people do who
> really want to do this, relying on user separation?  That's a workable
> solution that is quite common and works very well today.

I suppose so, but now you take the assumption that there is no
need for running multiple Linux variants on the same host (say
Ubuntu and Android side by side). Is this something you would
not like to see done?


-- 
Janne


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