Always Learning wrote:
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 08:22 +1000, Matt Paine wrote:
As far as I am aware, KVM uses the cpu hardware to run completely different operating systems independently of the host.
LXC is similar to Linux-VServer, or virtuozzo, where you are always running a base kernel, and can run multiple init's at the same time.
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Thank you for your explanation. It is most helpful. To summarise what I think is correct: One can run multiple LXC containers, each containing an identical version of the main host operating system but processes are separate from the others. KVM creates a type of 'container' allowing different host operating systems to run in that container.
Can one run inside a LXC container a KVM ?
Can one run inside a KVM some LXC containers ?
Or is the simultaneous usage on the same machine of LXC and KVM mutually exclusive or incompatible ?
Thank you again.
I have no experience with LXC, but I have been running Linux-Vserver inside KVM container, without any problem. I suppose that it is the same with LXC.
Running KVM inside LXC I haven't tried, but if it is possible I still think it is not such a good idea. Any disturbance in some of the LXCs will make problem to others (e.g. kernel driver crash will reflect on all LXCs and, therefore, all KVMs).
I think that running LXC/Linux-Vserver inside KVM machine is a great tool to "light virtualize" several small servers inside one "large" KVM.
Regards,
Nenad