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jzoudavy 08-31-2015 04:39 PM
linux container host os and container os question
 
Hi

I am playing around with LXC to famalirize myself with containers. I have the following question: it is my understanding with docker your host OS and container OS have to be the same.

But I am looking at LXC it has options to create many different containers that have different OSes like ubuntu/centos/opensuse etc while the host OS is, for example, ubuntu.

Why is that?

Thanks

TobiSGD 09-01-2015 05:21 AM
Both, Docker and LXC, allow you to run any Linux distribution in their containers, regardless which host distribution you use.


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