<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Isn't that true for chroot jails too though? That is a process in a chroot jail is visible in the host process table, right? Anyway, the point is that the host processes aren't visible in the container, not the other way around.<br><br><div><br><span name="x"></span></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org>, "DJ-Pfulio" <djpfulio@jdpfu.com>, ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, October 31, 2017 1:04:02 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Speaking of containers: Docker and iptables<br><br>Containers are like a chroot jail with widely spaced bars and doors locked with chewing gum.<br>
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A process running in a vm is not visible in the host process table. It is for a container.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On October 31, 2017 12:51:23 PM EDT, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio@jdpfu.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 10/31/2017 10:21 AM, Lightner, Jeffrey wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Question that just occurred to me: <br> Would one classify the base OS (not the individual containers) as a hypervisor<br> or is there a better term for it?<br></blockquote><br>No. I wouldn't call it a hypervisor.<br><br>Containers are NOT virtual machines. They are more like BSD-Jails.<br><hr><br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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