Containers are NOT a light weight vm. Processes in a container are processes in the main system.
Containers are essentially processes run in a chroot jail. The LXC stuff in the linux kernel adds a lot of namespace isolation and tools for containers, but in the end a process in a container are processes in your system. In a VM the hypervisor has a process ID, but all the processes in a VM are in the VM and not really exposed to the system. > We have had many meetings on vms and containers. Vms have been around > since > the 1970s. KVM has been in the mainline kernel since 2007. Containers are > a > more lightweight vm. > > -- > Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com> > Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org > PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 > PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 > B B6E7 > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 10:34 AM Edward <e...@sillydog.org> wrote: > >> Virtual Machines? >> >> I did a Google search on the BLU site for any past meetings pertaining >> to VM's and it found none. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.blu.org >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
