Container instead of VM: Why do all the sudo? [was Re: Software updater no longer functional]

Sat Jan 28 16:08:49 UTC 2017

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 16:49:08 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>Once two Ubuntus are installed, install the package
>"systemd-container".
>
>After that it only requires to mount the root directory and to run
>systemd-nspawn.

A virtual machine allows to take snapshots that could be restored if
you should damage the install when experimenting with root privileges,
at least the simple container approach I described doesn't provide
this feature, OTOH it's no problem to backup the install running in
the container and to restore it from a backup, if needed.