Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-6.0 and LXC

2011-07-19 Thread Nenad Opsenica
Always Learning wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 08:22 +1000, Matt Paine wrote: As far as I am aware, KVM uses the cpu hardware to run completely different operating systems independently of the host. LXC is similar to Linux-VServer, or virtuozzo, where you are always running a base

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-6.0 and LXC

2011-07-19 Thread Matt Paine
Hi Paul. See my un-educated comments inline :) On 19 July 2011 08:59, Always Learning cen...@u6.u22.net wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 08:22 +1000, Matt Paine wrote: As far as I am aware, KVM uses the cpu hardware to run completely different operating systems independently of the host.

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-6.0 and LXC

2011-07-19 Thread SZ Quadri
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Always Learning cen...@u6.u22.net wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 08:22 +1000, Matt Paine wrote: As far as I am aware, KVM uses the cpu hardware to run completely different operating systems independently of the host. LXC is similar to Linux-VServer, or

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-6.0 and LXC

2011-07-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/11/2011 12:50 PM, Matt Paine wrote: Hope someone can point me in the right direction. I would like to get into LXC and evaluate its usefulness compared with Linux-VServer. I notice that LXC is in tech preview upstream, however I am at a dead end trying to figure out how to get started.

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-6.0 and LXC

2011-07-18 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 12:32 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: afaik, LXC was on target for 6.2 Can someone please summarise the main differences between KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and LXC (Linux Containers) which are similar to BSD jails ? Can one put KVMs into any quantity of LXCs ? Do LXCs

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-6.0 and LXC

2011-07-18 Thread Matt Paine
As far as I am aware, KVM uses the cpu hardware to run completely different operating systems independently of the host. LXC is similar to Linux-VServer, or virtuozzo, where you are always running a base kernel, and can run multiple init's at the same time. Each init (and any processes spawed

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-6.0 and LXC

2011-07-18 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 08:22 +1000, Matt Paine wrote: As far as I am aware, KVM uses the cpu hardware to run completely different operating systems independently of the host. LXC is similar to Linux-VServer, or virtuozzo, where you are always running a base kernel, and can run multiple

[CentOS-virt] CentOS-6.0 and LXC

2011-07-11 Thread Matt Paine
Hi Guys. Hope someone can point me in the right direction. I would like to get into LXC and evaluate its usefulness compared with Linux-VServer. I notice that LXC is in tech preview upstream, however I am at a dead end trying to figure out how to get started. I cannot find any usertools in the