Comments on: LXC – Linux Containers http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/lxc-linux-containers/ A LAMP in the Samsara Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:48:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: NIMDAE - Virtualizing With lxc In Ubuntu – Done Right! http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/lxc-linux-containers/comment-page-1/#comment-2120 NIMDAE - Virtualizing With lxc In Ubuntu – Done Right! Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:50:30 +0000 http://blog.bodhizazen.net/?p=871#comment-2120 [...] http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/lxc-linux-containers/ [...] [...] http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/lxc-linux-containers/ [...]

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]]> By: bodhi.zazen http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/lxc-linux-containers/comment-page-1/#comment-1561 bodhi.zazen Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:44:28 +0000 http://blog.bodhizazen.net/?p=871#comment-1561 Eirck : These tools are all very similar, although they vary somewhat in features. Here is a nice comparison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system-level_virtualization LXC is NOT as developed as BSD jails and Linux has the disadvantage in that, among other things there is a great deal of variability across distros and the various boot scripts where BSD is more uniform. LXC is, IMO, in early development and, again, IMHO, not yet ready for a production server (personally I have concerns about the ease of breaking out of the container, and again, IMO, the LXC containers are not as isolated from the main OS / kernel processes as I would like). For now, I will stay with openvz. Eirck : These tools are all very similar, although they vary somewhat in features.

Here is a nice comparison:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system-level_virtualization

LXC is NOT as developed as BSD jails and Linux has the disadvantage in that, among other things there is a great deal of variability across distros and the various boot scripts where BSD is more uniform.

LXC is, IMO, in early development and, again, IMHO, not yet ready for a production server (personally I have concerns about the ease of breaking out of the container, and again, IMO, the LXC containers are not as isolated from the main OS / kernel processes as I would like).

For now, I will stay with openvz.

]]> By: bodhi.zazen http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/lxc-linux-containers/comment-page-1/#comment-1560 bodhi.zazen Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:40:02 +0000 http://blog.bodhizazen.net/?p=871#comment-1560 Ricky: That is correct. Guests or containers are Linux only. Ricky: That is correct. Guests or containers are Linux only.

]]> By: Ricky http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/lxc-linux-containers/comment-page-1/#comment-1558 Ricky Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:06:36 +0000 http://blog.bodhizazen.net/?p=871#comment-1558 Wow!It's excellent.Linux containers run Linux processes on a Linux kernel. This means you can run Linux but not other operating systems. Wow!It’s excellent.Linux containers run Linux processes on a Linux kernel. This means you can run Linux but not other operating systems.

]]> By: Eric Lee Green http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/lxc-linux-containers/comment-page-1/#comment-1541 Eric Lee Green Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:34:32 +0000 http://blog.bodhizazen.net/?p=871#comment-1541 From the description, this sounds somewhat similar to FreeBSD jails, which similarly are a "hack" on top of chroot. Have you ever encountered FreeBSD jails, and if so, would you care to compare/contrast FreeBSD jails, OpenVZ, and LXC? I think that would be interesting information for anybody interested in lightweight containerization. -ELG From the description, this sounds somewhat similar to FreeBSD jails, which similarly are a “hack” on top of chroot. Have you ever encountered FreeBSD jails, and if so, would you care to compare/contrast FreeBSD jails, OpenVZ, and LXC? I think that would be interesting information for anybody interested in lightweight containerization.

-ELG

]]> By: Sean Clarke http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/lxc-linux-containers/comment-page-1/#comment-1502 Sean Clarke Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:36:22 +0000 http://blog.bodhizazen.net/?p=871#comment-1502 This looks excellent - I cannot believe the community is not making more noise over this technology, perhaps they are to busy coo'ing over Xen ?? If this matures to a technology similiar to Solaris Zones it could be a major win for the Linux community. I have been looking at this space for a while, openvz was never in the main branch and from memory there were another 2 offerings that were also available. This is a great visualisation technology that has completly shaped the Solaris deployment and production landscape - I have seen it use end to end from development to test to production deployment as a natural task - create a zone, deploy app/db etc. Don't get me wrong, Xen is good and has it's place, but for Linux on Linux hosting - containers just makes more sense. I am an avid OpenSolaris/Linux user and this is one of the major advantages OpenSolaris has in this area - they are so easy and versatile to use - I can knock up a new zone or clone an existing zone (with ZFS) in seconds and VERY, VERY easily (interesting as Solaris is normally harder to configure than Linux). I'm sure as it matures, as better/easier tools become available and we some integration when BTRFS it will be a great technology - I'll certainly be having a look in Ubuntu 9.10 an look forward to the improvements in 10.04. Keep up the excellent work! Sean This looks excellent – I cannot believe the community is not making more noise over this technology, perhaps they are to busy coo’ing over Xen ??

If this matures to a technology similiar to Solaris Zones it could be a major win for the Linux community. I have been looking at this space for a while, openvz was never in the main branch and from memory there were another 2 offerings that were also available.

This is a great visualisation technology that has completly shaped the Solaris deployment and production landscape – I have seen it use end to end from development to test to production deployment as a natural task – create a zone, deploy app/db etc.

Don’t get me wrong, Xen is good and has it’s place, but for Linux on Linux hosting – containers just makes more sense. I am an avid OpenSolaris/Linux user and this is one of the major advantages OpenSolaris has in this area – they are so easy and versatile to use – I can knock up a new zone or clone an existing zone (with ZFS) in seconds and VERY, VERY easily (interesting as Solaris is normally harder to configure than Linux).

I’m sure as it matures, as better/easier tools become available and we some integration when BTRFS it will be a great technology – I’ll certainly be having a look in Ubuntu 9.10 an look forward to the improvements in 10.04.

Keep up the excellent work!
Sean

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