OpenBSD 6.0: why and how

Re:OpenBSD 6.0: why and how by d_theorist on Thursday September 01, 2016 @08:08AM (#12404593)

I love OpenBSD, but one reason I don't use it for my day-to-day work is that it lacks some tools that I now find indispensable. For example, LXC containers are incredibly useful for creating isolated, lightweight, development environments. I don't know of anything similar for OBSD.

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Re:OpenBSD 6.0: why and how by ams6110 on Thursday September 01, 2016 @10:06AM (#12405312)

chroot for isolated environments, but it's not as easy to set up as lxc from what I recall. You could automate setup with ansible or scripts if it's something you do a lot.

You can run VMs in qemu, but the one time I tried it it was painfully slow.

There's also work on vmm introduced in 5.9 but I'm not sure how close it is to something that is really is complete and usable.

http://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8

http://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8

http://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmm.4

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Re:OpenBSD 6.0: why and how by d_theorist on Thursday September 01, 2016 @01:08PM (#12407013)

Thanks. I'll take another look at chroot jails when I do my next periodic "Install OpenBSD and see if I can use it as a day-to-day work OS" experiment :)

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Re:OpenBSD 6.0: why and how by dijit on Thursday September 01, 2016 @08:15AM (#12404644)

chroot(2)[0][1] is probably what you want, although I prefer FreeBSD jails.

[0]: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/karsten/e... [1]:

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