chroot breakout (was: Xen 2.0 Virtual Machine)
Brian Densmore
DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Mon Nov 8 12:30:09 CST 2004
-----Original Message-----
> From: Garrett Goebel
>
> Brian Densmore wrote:
>>
>>> Garrett Goebel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Have you tried to just chroot into another one?
>>> For _a_ test environment, that's fine. But not for running multiple
>>> simultaneous test environments, or giving away root accounts.
>>
>> Are you saying that you can't open up multiple CLIs and run chroot in
>> as many simultaneous instances as memory and diskspace allow?
> Sure, but instances of what? Processes not kernels. You couldn't for
> instance test the setup of a high availability cluster...
Well for high availability cluster emulation I would recommend using the
King of VMs. IBM z390/Linux.
;')
> Chroot is fine for running services under a low privilege account
> in a jail. It isn't a cure-all.
Very true.
> With UML I can give anyone I wish a root account on their own virtual
> Linux box...
Sounds pretty good.
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