[lxc-users] LXC with X, specifically KDE v. VM

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:16 PM, TuxRaiderPen <tuxraiderpen at wpascanner.com>wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 06, 2014 04:49:06 Dirk Geschke wrote:
>



> Any views, opinions, comments in re that LXC might be better, worse, even
> v. a
> VM??? Just curious, as I probably am going the LXC route, as it gives me
> another test use case. I found the LXC containers for LAMP dev/testing to
> be
> quite a hit with my group v. a VM setup for them.
>
>

The first line your original mail says "I am in a situation where I am
looking to possibly use LXC as a way to run ONE specific program that needs
an X desktop". Thus the recommendations about various ways to use lxc and
X. First line has a big impact :)

Anyway, back to your real question. I'm not sure what kind of response
you'd expect here. Any particular aspect you're particulary concerned with?
ease of use, resource usage, etc?

You already said you're used to LXC with LAMP, which means you already
experience the better resource utilization. Using lxc for a single program
(with X forwarding) would pretty much yield the same result: lxc is much
more resource-efficient compared to a full-virtualization vm.

Something that is even MORE resource-efficient (though probably not by
much) is to simply use chroot, but you'd probably end up with a messier
setup security-wise (compared to the unprivileged container example in
stephane's blog linked by Dirk earlier).

-- 
Fajar
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