OpenVZ

[olo]

Hi,

Would it be possible to install OpenVZ on my Raspbian? I've read that it's very lightweight so it would work fine with just a few services that normally runs on RPI, am I right? Should I install it normally as on a normal x86 PC? Will I have to recompile the kernel? How much time will it take to do that on RPI?

[basicmark]

Wikipedia would seem to suggest it only supports x86 and not ARM:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVZ

You'll struggle to find a paravirtualization solution that works out of the box as they require modifications for the platform on which they are to be run on. I'm also not sure why you would want to do on the RPi anyway as there will always be some overhead and processing power is somewhat limited. Do you not trust these services to run on the same OS?

[Thaddy]

OpenVZ is in many respects just chroot. Why not chroot these services yourself? Or even a chrooted OS like Arch running the services? That's perfectly feasible on the pi.

[situationalawareness]

OpenVZ is far from being similar to chroot, since it strictly manages all resources along with isolating memory segments. You're thinking of something more along the lines of Linux Virtual Server.