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Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:43:52 +0200
From: Bjoern Franke <bjo@nord-west.org>
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] running batman-adv in a openvz VE
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Hi,

thanks for your reply!

> I have never used openvz, but adjusted some protocols to deal with openvz 
> aware kernels (which means that they used and checked their namespace - so 
> nothing really fancy).
>
> What must be done for device drivers to make them work on OpenVZ? Have you 
> tried it and where have found you problems?

OpenVZ-Containers use the same kernel as the host system and I can build
and load the module on the host, but I don't know how to access
/proc/net/batman-adv from within the container. The container uses a own
proc-fs.

> There was a proof-of-concept version of batman-adv running in userland. This 
> work was abandoned in favor of the in kernel implementation (better 
> integration/better latency/less overhead/.... - stuff which is even worse on 
> embedded systems - see Linus comments on the tinc vpn throughput on DIR300).

Ah ok.

best regards
Bjoern
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