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#1 2023-02-27 06:30:20

Danielsan
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Chroot/Jails alternative available for Devuan

Hi there,

I am wondering if there are available for Devuan, besides CHROOT, other technologies closer to the BSD JAILS or NSPAWN provided by Systemd, thanks! 🙏

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#2 2023-02-27 13:45:59

boughtonp
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Re: Chroot/Jails alternative available for Devuan

Looks like systemd-nspawn is a wrapper around the kernel namespaces feature.

Linux namespaces do NOT require systemd to use.


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#3 2023-02-27 16:10:15

Danielsan
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Re: Chroot/Jails alternative available for Devuan

boughtonp wrote:

Looks like systemd-nspawn is a wrapper around the kernel namespaces feature.

Linux namespaces do NOT require systemd to use.

Thank you for the head-up, your suggestion landed me on this old article:

https://lwn.net/Articles/531114/

I think they had better to rename the project from SYSTEMD to SYSTEMNIH...

😂

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#4 2023-02-27 21:35:32

ralph.ronnquist
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Re: Chroot/Jails alternative available for Devuan

You might want to look at overlay-boot from devuan/experimental for light-weight container-like hosts using linux namespaces. I.e. sharing the kernel by virtual hosts. (Source at https://git.devuan.org/devuan/overlay-boot)

I'm also exploring user-mode-linux for non-root pseudo-virtualization; separate kernels on the host's hardware (not virtualized). This includes the variant where the VM file system is a host directory. (see https://git.devuan.org/rrq/umlvm)

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#5 2023-02-27 23:46:14

Danielsan
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Re: Chroot/Jails alternative available for Devuan

ralph.ronnquist wrote:

You might want to look at overlay-boot from devuan/experimental for light-weight container-like hosts using linux namespaces. I.e. sharing the kernel by virtual hosts. (Source at https://git.devuan.org/devuan/overlay-boot)

I'm also exploring user-mode-linux for non-root pseudo-virtualization; separate kernels on the host's hardware (not virtualized). This includes the variant where the VM file system is a host directory. (see https://git.devuan.org/rrq/umlvm)

Thank you because, I read several article about the topics and namespaces aren't meant to persistent, also are pretty trickery and require knowledge that I miss completely.

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#6 2023-02-28 04:04:35

Danielsan
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Re: Chroot/Jails alternative available for Devuan

Too complicated this as well, didn't understand anything… 😵💫

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#7 2023-02-28 05:07:54

ralph.ronnquist
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Re: Chroot/Jails alternative available for Devuan

Yes, everything is complicated in its particulars. That's why it's fun to learn stuff.

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#8 2023-03-02 04:08:31

User479
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Re: Chroot/Jails alternative available for Devuan

Firejail?

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