[Kestrelhpc-developers] Linux Containers

[Jon A. H. <jo...@gm...>]

We should definitely replace in the end the actual chroot mode
(kestrel-images --chroot) with a Linux Container (LXC) mode. That way
we will be able to allow common users to scale root privileges on the
images without any fear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LXC

Another interesting idea, is to use LXC to simulate multiple nodes
without any complete virtualization (no performance gain, but it can
be used in universities to teach parallel programming without the need
of a real cluster).

Regards,

JonAn.