Re: Fedora/RedHat is moving is a similar direction

Liam Proven <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general
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On 5 September 2015 at 17:28, Sergio Tortosa Benedito
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Let's take the most lightweight way of having another OS inside an already
> existing one: chroot, even with that the system might have to load a lot of
> stuff (libraries, config, resources...) , however much of these stuff might
> already be inside the host and thus duplicating them.

Containers in general and LXC in particular are *based* on an enhanced
form of chroot (and Docker is based on LXC). Containers extend
chroot's *filesystem only* isolation to process maps and more.

I wrote about this a few years ago:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/18/brief_history_of_virtualisation_part_3/

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