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Comment by zokier

4 years ago

> Docker relies on LXC, so it's Linux-only.

Docker hasn't supported LXC since 2016, and stopped relying on it in 2014

https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-0-9-introducing-execution...

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handrous  4 years ago

I thought the name for the collection of kernel features was LXC, I didn't realize (until just now) that was the name only for the also-kernel-level wrapper for those features, which name does not cover the features themselves. That is, I didn't realize that LXC is to Cgroups+Namespaces as Libvirt is to KVM—I thought LXC, as a label, covered the whole feature-set—but regardless, it's still married to Linux kernel features and runs on other platforms under virtualization, no?