Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jails don't give you a perfect separation. Jails still run under the > same kernel as the host system, and if there's a bug somewhere, you're > out of luck. You can also run into various kinds of resource > starvation with jails, i.e. jails can use up shared resources. All of > that isn't possible (or at least to a much smaller degree) with > virtualization solutions (xen, qemu, vmware, whatever), because they > run the guest systems in a virtual machine with their own kernel and > resources.
In addition, numerous system features are not available or do not work properly in jails. You can't run a DHCP server in a jail, nor can you easily run multiple PostgreSQL servers in separate jails on the same machine. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
