Hey, On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:19:35PM +0000, Datta, Souvik wrote: > Hello, > > > I am new to container technology and at present, experimenting with LXC and > runC. I need to run a system container on an embedded target which has a > requirement of fast startup time. > > In this context, can some one please guide me whether LXC or runC should be > used? > > Is runC suitable for a "system container" when I intend to run a full fledged > root FS with all OS services.
No, it is not. runC is not tailored to run system containers where as LXC definitely is it's also a 11mb go binary whereas lxc-* is like 30K something C binary. > > > By the way, I have read that LXC support would be removed after April 2019. > Does the startup time of the container get impacted if LXD is used instead of > LXC? I don't know what you mean by that. We as upstream will be supporting LXC way past 2019. Where did you get that weird date from? Thanks! Christian _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users
