Dear LXC List I'm looking for advice on running LXC on Debian.
I did quite a lot of work on trialling lxc about two years ago but then left it there because of a lack of time and some troublesome issues with Debian stable at the time. We are considering using LXC again for a spare server to take over a couple of small production server images where the hardware is reaching end-of-life. Also we wish to be able to quickly setup clones/variants of our web application stack (postgresql + php/python + apache) for testing purposes. The machine we have available has 6GB of RAM, a system (hw raid 1) 200G drive and a storage drive (hw raid 5) of 1TB. The board is a TYAN Tempest with 8 x Intel E5420 @ 2.50GHz. We have been trialling btrfs for some years now and are happy to take the risks of running the storage drive on btrfs. Presently the Debian LXC wiki page at https://wiki.debian.org/LXC states "LXC may not provide sufficient isolation at this time". I would be grateful for comments about whether a version of Debian is suitable for these intended uses, what Debian distro version is recommended (if any), what kernel version to run and recommendations about using btrfs. Thanks, and apologies for the open-ended questions. Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange [email protected] _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users
