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I love OpenBSD, but one reason I don't use it for my day-to-day work is that it lacks some tools that I now find indispensable. For example, LXC containers are
by d_theorist 10y ago
I love OpenBSD, but one reason I don't use it for my day-to-day work is that it lacks some tools that I now find indispensable. For example, LXC containers are incredibly useful for creating isolated, lightweight, development environments. I don't know of anything similar for OBSD.
- dijit 10y agochroot(2)[0][1] is probably what you want, although I prefer FreeBSD jails. [0]: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/karsten/entry/openbsd_chroot?lang=en https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/karsten/e... [1]:
- ams6110 10y agochroot for isolated environments, but it's not as easy to set up as lxc from what I recall. You could automate setup with ansible or scripts if it's something you do a lot. You can run VMs in qemu, but the one time I tried it it was painfully slow. There's also work on vmm introduced in 5.9 but I'm not sure how close it is to something that is really is complete and usable. http://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8 http://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8 http://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8 http://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8 http://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmm.4 http://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmm.4
- d_theorist 10y agoThanks. I'll take another look at chroot jails when I do my next periodic "Install OpenBSD and see if I can use it as a day-to-day work OS" experiment :)