Friday, January 28, 2011

use LXC under heavier virtualization (Xen, KVM,Hyper-V,VMVare)

Is it possible to use LXC under heavier virtualization (Xen DomU,KVM,Hyper-V,VMVare) ? I would like to use it as security (isolation) tool, the ability to limit resource consumption is not priority for me. I am only interesting if it can be done straightforward way (same/similar to using LXC on non-virtualized server), I do not want to use too tricky setup on production server.

  • I can't talk for Xen or KVM but neither Hyper-V not ESX/i directly support LXC but of course they all support various linuxes and certainly ESX/i allows a hypervisor-within-hypervisor so it might work like that.

    From Chopper3
  • Here's an Ubuntu page that shows that you can run in under KVM - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LXC

    ephemient : Indeed, and it should work under the other virtualization systems OP mentions – LXC doesn't need or use any hardware virtualization functionality.
    From ActionJack

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