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Is it possible to use LXC under heavier virtualization (Xen DomU,KVM,Hyper-V,VMVare) ? I would like to use it as security (isolation) tool, the ability to limit resource consumption is not priority for me. I am only interesting if it can be done straightforward way (same/similar to using LXC on non-virtualized server), I do not want to use too tricky setup on production server.

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Here's an Ubuntu page that shows that you can run in under KVM - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LXC

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I've just completed live implementation of LXC under VMware VSphere, as part of it I did a couple of Proof of Concepts that implemented LXC under KVM and VirtualBox as well here's the link:

http://uncommonsense-uk.com/2012/virtual-machine-stacking-using-lxc-on-top-of-esx/

-ActionJack

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Indeed, and it should work under the other virtualization systems OP mentions – LXC doesn't need or use any hardware virtualization functionality. – ephemient Oct 24 '10 at 20:04
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I can't talk for Xen or KVM but neither Hyper-V not ESX/i directly support LXC but of course they all support various linuxes and certainly ESX/i allows a hypervisor-within-hypervisor so it might work like that.

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