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lighter weight than a VM. It uses the same kernel as the rest of the system, but sandboxes the userspace to limit what impact it can have on the rest of the sy
by simcop2387 6y ago
lighter weight than a VM. It uses the same kernel as the rest of the system, but sandboxes the userspace to limit what impact it can have on the rest of the system. They're not quite equivalent to a container on Linux but they're very similar in functionality.
- Lammy 6y agoVNET jails, as the author is using, also have a completely stand-alone network stack from the host-OS!
- nine_k 6y agoAren't cgroups / containers a very close equivalent? In either case, it's namespacing, of a tree of userspace processes to make them invisible from the rest of the userspace.