I admit to not being as familiar with Jails as I'd like, but systemd-nspawn seems to cover much of this use-case on the Linux side. I've used it in a few differ

I admit to not being as familiar with Jails as I'd like, but systemd-nspawn seems to cover much of this use-case on the Linux side. I've used it in a few different scenarios and found it very easy and intuitive to set up. Easier and simpler than VZ for kernel-based VMs for sure.