[pve-devel] [PATCH pve-docs 1/2] Explain how PVE containers use LXC in the FAQ.
Emmanuel Kasper
e.kasper at proxmox.com
Thu Sep 8 09:24:35 CEST 2016
---
pve-faq.adoc | 14 +++++++++-----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pve-faq.adoc b/pve-faq.adoc
index bcb6160..8270909 100644
--- a/pve-faq.adoc
+++ b/pve-faq.adoc
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ recommended.
| {pve} 1.x | Debian 5 (Lenny) | 2008-10 | 2012-03 | 2013-01
|===========================================================
-LXC vs LXD vs Docker::
+LXC vs LXD vs Proxmox Containers vs Docker::
LXC is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment
features. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users easily
@@ -102,11 +102,15 @@ LXC, as well as the former OpenVZ, aims at *system virtualization*, ie
allows you to run a complete OS inside a container, where you log in as ssh,
add users, run apache, etc...
+
+Proxmox VE aims at system virtualization, and thus uses LXC as the basis of its
+own container offer. LXC provides countless options, and it would be too
+difficult to use LXC tools directly. Instead, we provide a small wrapper called
+`pct`, the "Proxmox Container Toolkit", using LXC as a low-level library.
++
Docker aims at running a *single* application running in a contained
environment. Hence you're managing a docker instance from the host with the
docker toolkit.
+
-NOTE: Proxmox VE aims at system virtualization, and thus uses LXC as the basis
-of its own container offer. You can however perfectly install and use docker
-inside a VM, and thus getting the benefit of software containerization
-with the very strong isolation that VMs provide.
+NOTE: You can however perfectly install and use docker inside a Proxmox Qemu
+VM, and thus getting the benefit of software containerization with the very
+strong isolation that VMs provide.
--
2.1.4
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