Re: chroot or virtual machine

[Alex Mestiashvili <alex@biotec.tu-dresden.de>]

On 05/15/2012 06:24 PM, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:19:23AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
>   
>> Like you, I'm figuring this out, and so my understanding could be wrong
>> or suboptimal.  I tried to avoid the sys/proc/dev sharing, but found I
>> needed to do them to make things work.  Sharing those virtual file
>> systems removes a lot of the isolation between the chroot and the host.
>>
>> Perhaps someone who knows more will say more :)
>>     
> Did you discover schroot yet?  It will do all of that stuff for you,
> and more, including setting up all the system passwd databases etc.
> The next stable release will also allow services to be stopped and
> started in the chroot automatically as well.
>
> http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/schroot.pdf
>
>
> Regards,
> Roger
>
>   

Hi All,

I didn't really follow the discussion, but another approach can be
Linux Containers: http://wiki.debian.org/LXC
(just in case no one mentioned before)

Best regards,
Alex