there's absolutely wrong statement regarding Solaris's zones and FreeBSD's jail in LXC doc:

Gunnar Hjalmarsson gunnarhj at ubuntu.com
Mon Nov 10 22:52:35 UTC 2014


On 2014-11-10 06:02, Igor Podlesny wrote:
> "... Containers are a lightweight virtualization technology. They are
> more akin to an enhanced chroot than to full virtualization like Qemu
> or VMware, both because they do not emulate hardware and because
> containers share the same operating system as the host. Therefore
> containers are better compared to Solaris zones or BSD jails. ..." --
> https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/serverguide/lxc.html
> 
> Essentialy both the "zones" and the "jails" are lightweight
> virtualization technology, so actually they're very similar to
> "containers".

Thanks for pointing it out.

> I dunno who wrote that ignorant statement in the doc, but it needs to
> be fixed if you want your docs to be considered as accurate source of
> knowledge.

Please behave yourself!! Members of the Documentation Team do their best
to maintain the docs on their spare time, and talking about "ignorant"
will certainly not help.

-- 
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj



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