Avoid virtualization overhead with Linux Containers

Posted by solrac on Feb 5, 2009 1:25 PM EDT
IBM/developerWorks; By Matt Helsley
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Containers provide lightweight virtualization that lets you isolate processes and resources without the need to provide instruction interpretation mechanisms and other complexities of full virtualization. In this step-by-step tour of the container tools called Linux® Containers (LXC), the author introduces you to the tools and shows how to get up and running on them.

Linux Containers provide lightweight virtualization that lets you isolate processes and resources without the need to provide instruction interpretation mechanisms and other complexities of full virtualization. In this step-by-step tour of Linux container tools (LXC), the author introduces you to the Linux container tools and shows how to get up and running on them. This article will show you how Linux containers significantly lower the overhead of using true virtualization, while still providing isolation.

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