On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:43 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote:
> hydra <hydrapo...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > > > >> symack <sym...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> Other than that, unless you really do need full virtualization: I'm > >> finding Linux containers to be far more manageable than virtual > >> machines, and much more efficient. > >> > >> > > Can you please post some more details? > > About containers? > > There's very useful documentation about them like > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LXC ... > > What can I say? Virtualization with xen is like juggling with a set of > black boxes each of which aren't exactly accessible; the > documentation sucks, it's hard work to get it running and likewise hard > to maintain. > > Virtualization with containers is basically as simple as running just > another daemon. > > Which the "better" tool, or combination of tools is, depends on what you > want to accomplish. You could use containers in a VM, too, or use > virtualbox along with containers to run the odd VMs that require full > virtualzation. > > > -- > Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons > might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. > > You mean the documentation at Gentoo about Xen sucks or the upstream documentation? What information are you missing from there? Maybe we can add the missing pieces for Xen being more accessible and easier to use, what do you think? :)
