Re: DebCamp15
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote:
> Chroot tests suffer from limitations with daemons (changed port
> numbers if the same daemon is running outside etc.) and are subject to
> whatever the running kernel can offer.
has anyone considered modifying any automated chroot-based systems to
use lxc? three years ago at phil hand's recommendation i converted a
XEN server with five guests over to lxc and it has worked out
extremely well.
with a bit of arseing about i was even able to add the LVM partitions
formerly used by the XEN guests over to lxc, meaning that i didn't
have to mess with the filesystems (copy them out or anything).
using lxc would solve the limitation that you describe, neil, about
daemons having to change port numbers. the only thing you can't do is
test kernel-related stuff (udev-related) with lxc. don't know the
specifics but when i installed lxc (3 years ago) udev said "not gonna
start" in all the clients. that worked for me - might not be ok for
certain scenarios that you envisage testing.
l.
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