On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 11:10 +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > On 12/30/2011 12:14 PM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > > On Mon 2011-12-26 (18:25), Wai-kit Sze wrote: > > > >> What are the difference between application containers and system > >> containers? Both of them can start a command directly. > > An application container starts one single program. > > A system container starts (boots) a whole linux system. > > Right. > > application container => applicaton running in a container > system container => system running in a container >
Yeah, basically, that means: - system containers perform full isolation of VFS, network, pids... etc... and run a standard /sbin/init as pid 1. - application containers perform partial isolation (pids and some filesystems like /proc) and run a custom lxc-init instead of /sbin/init -- Gregory Kurz gk...@fr.ibm.com Software Engineer @ IBM/Meiosys http://www.ibm.com Tel +33 (0)534 638 479 Fax +33 (0)561 400 420 "Anarchy is about taking complete responsibility for yourself." Alan Moore. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
