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Sounds a lot like Solaris containers of a decade ago.

Yeah, I have been doing some research for an upcoming screencast, and this type of idea is called Operating system-level virtualization [1], and there is a fairly good table with the various OS's and their take on OS-level virtualization. E.g. Solaris Containers, FreeBSD Jail, OpenVZ, HP-UX Containers, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system-level_virtuali...

Here's a background piece on containers that I wrote a few months back: http://bitmason.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-are-containers-any...

Thanks. FYI, I just posted this to HN [1]. Seeing as you put in all this effort, you should have people reading it, outside this thread. Looks like you made the front page too!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6889679

Thanks! I was wondering where my piece popped up from :-)

Yep. Or BSD jails before that.

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