[Lxc-users] Control panel

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Matto Fransen (matto at matto.nl):
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 07:35:38AM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Nice - that should be pretty simple to whip up, too.  A python app
> > wrapping the command line tools...  Could probably even design it
> > such that the same core can be used by both a curses interface and
> > a gui interface.
> 
> One of the nice things IMHO of LXC Linux Containers is that it hardly
> needs any extra's on the host. The user-space app's are either
> compiled C-programs or bash-scripts. There is one Perl application
> but that is not-critical and one can do without.
> 
> I would love to see it stay that way. At the moment, it is very
> doable to set up a host containing just a minimal system (like
> kernel, busybox, ssh or dropbear, some libs and the LXC-app's).
> 
> So I would recommend to see of this could be done either in
> shellscript or C, or otherwise stay at Perl.

(just making sure)

Meaning you think python would be too heavyweight?

-serge