Setting up a chroot is often easier than virtualization, when the host and "virtual" systems are different distributions of the same OS. On Debian-like systems

Setting up a chroot is often easier than virtualization, when the host and "virtual" systems are different distributions of the same OS. On Debian-like systems (including Ubuntu) you can use debootstrap to set up the chroot, e.g.: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebootstrapChroot https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebootstrapChroot