Re: Jail support? Mult/KAuth approach?

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 05:46:33PM +0000, David Chanters wrote:
> I've tried doing some reading around this, and am simply curious from
> a personal interest POV if there's any information/plans about jail
> implementations for NetBSD.  I specifically mean native jail support
> as opposed to having to run something like Xen; this isn't an answer.
> :)
> 
> I've read about Mult., which AFAIK is about the closest thing to jail
> support?  Unfortunately it seems this has now been discontinued?  At
> least, all indications from this page suggest as much:
> 
> http://mult.bsd.lv/
> 
> Can someone confirm either way what the status of this is?  Was it
> ever included in NetBSD?

Last message I can see wrt mult is:

        http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2007/12/29/0007.html

Some NetBSD developers talked with Kristaps at AsiaBSDcon in April
2008 about mult, and I've exchanged some email with him since then. 
Would be nice to see it in NetBSD, I agree.
 
> This talk on Mult was certainly interesting:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaVnNllZxn4&feature=channel
> 
> Alternatively, I was supposing it might be possible to do something
> similar with KAuth?  Or is that perhaps not such a good idea?

I'll let some others speak about this one.

Regards,
Alistair