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

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Igor Podlesny (ubuntu at poige.ru):
> On 11 November 2014 11:11, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> […]
> > Igor, I'm not quite following.  You say the statement "containers are
> > better compared to zones or jail" is wrong because zones and jails are
> > very similar to containers.  But those are saying the same thing.
> >
> > Perhaps rephrasing your objection in the form of a patch would help to
> > clarify?
> 
> 1) "Containers are a lightweight virtualization technology."
> 
>    -- ok
> 
> 2) "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."
> 
>    -- ok
> 
> 3) "Therefore containers are better compared to Solaris zones or BSD jails. ..."

Jinkeys!  No, the original text does not mean that containers are better
than zones or jails.  It means that it is better to compare containers to
OS level virt like zones and jails than to full emulation like qemu.

>    -- ORLY? How about zones and jails by themseves are "more like
> chroot" and not "full virtualization".
> 
>    IOW, zones / jails / LXC are all the same approach, contrary to
> "full virtualization".
> 
> --