Also known as LinuX Containers
Linux Containers (LXC) is an operating system-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a control host using a single Linux kernel.
Key facts
- Software.title
- Linux Containers
- Software.name
- LXC
- Software.logo
- Linux Containers logo.svg
- Software.programming language
- C, Shell
- Software.operating system
- Linux
- Software.platform
- x86, IA-64, PowerPC, SPARC, Itanium, ARM
- Software.genre
- OS-level virtualization
- Software.license
- GNU LGPL v.2.1 (some components under GNU GPL v2 and BSD)
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- Overview
- Security
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- LXD
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- References
- External links
Linux Containers (LXC) is an operating system-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a control host using a single Linux kernel.
The Linux kernel provides the cgroups functionality that allows limitation and prioritization of resources (CPU, memory, block I/O, network, etc.) without the need for starting any virtual machines, and also the namespace isolation functionality that allows complete isolation of an application's view of the operating environment, including process trees, networking, user IDs and mounted file systems.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “LXC” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.