[Lxc-users] start ubuntu in a lxc?

[陈竞]

so all the guest os share the same kernel with host,   that's the root
cause.

thank you!

在 2012年3月6日 上午11:45，Fajar A. Nugraha <list at fajar.net>写道：

> 2012/3/6 陈竞 <cj.magina at gmail.com>:
> > I see that we can start a ubuntu in a lxc. So when ubuntu do block io
> > operation, what does it really do, since it does not simulate hardware?
>
> All "OS" running in lxc containers shares the same kernel with the
> host. The kernel performs the necessary i/o operation.
>
> From the host perspective, the io operation is treated just like any
> normal io operation from a normal running process.
>
> > And what the real difference between kvm and lxc, since we can start a
> os in
> > lxc?
>
> I like to think of lxc as chroot with steroids. The host shares the
> same kernel and part of the filesystem with the guest (or rather, the
> host sees all guests' filesystem). It's different from normal chroot
> in:
> - guests can only see their own processes
> - guests has it's own ip address, can be on different logical subnet
> from the host
> - guests has some additional limits (e.g. memory, cpu share) imposed on
> them
>
> kvm is a full-blown virtualization setup, where each guest OS can have
> its own kernel, or even running non-linux OS (e.g. windows).
>
> --
> Fajar
>



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