Re: sshd containers?

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 03:24:05PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> We have some ancient systems we use to build backward compatible
> software. I was thinking about copying the root/usr stuff to
> a faster more modern system and using a chrooted sshd to get
> to each build system (now just a separate root on a single
> build system).
>
> But now I see random information floating around about
> linux containers and lightweight virtualization. Anyone
> who understands this stuff know if it might be more appropriate
> than a "simple" chroot for what I want to do?

Is this stuff which might build with Mock? Mock is a system that's basically
made for exactly this kind of cross-distro-version compiling, and there is
work on migrating it to use containers natively.