[Discuss] Potential Subject for BLU Meeting

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

Containers are NOT a light weight vm. Processes in a container are
processes in the main system.

Containers are essentially processes run in a chroot jail. The LXC stuff
in the linux kernel adds a lot of namespace isolation and tools for
containers, but in the end a process in a container are processes in your
system.

In a VM the hypervisor has a process ID, but all the processes in a VM are
in the VM and not really exposed to the system.

> We have had many meetings on vms and containers. Vms have been around
> since
> the 1970s. KVM has been in the mainline kernel since 2007. Containers are
> a
> more lightweight vm.
>
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> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 10:34 AM Edward <epp at sillydog.org> wrote:
>
>> Virtual Machines?
>>
>> I did a Google search on the BLU site for any past meetings pertaining
>> to VM's and it found none.
>>
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