On Monday, August 18, 2014 03:12:15 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:21 PM, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > In cases like that I would do either of the following: > > > > 1) Run it inside a VM > > 2) run it inside a chroot > > > > That way you can easily keep everything updated except for that > > application. > Or better still run it inside a container. Gives you most of the > benefits of both a VM and a chroot. It isn't as isolated as a VM, but > it is more isolated than just running the thing on your system. It is > also easy to bind-mount your home directory if that is helpful. A > container replaces the entire userspace, potentially including init as > well. So, as long as your kernel is compatible and you're not doing > anything too crazy with devices, this should solve your compatibility > issues.
I should look into those. Just noticed there is also a libvirt driver for it: http://libvirt.org/drvlxc.html > -- > Rich
