Jails: confining the omnipotent root

By P. Kamp, R. N. Watson. 2000

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Operating Systems Support for Planetary-Scale Network Services (2004, methodology): “The approach we adopted is to virtualize at the systemcall level, similar to commercial offerings like Ensim [14] , and projects such as User Mode Linux [12], BSD’s Jail [21], and Linux vservers [25].”
My VM is Lighter (and Safer) than your Container (2017, background): “A number of OS-level virtualization technologies exist and are widely deployed, including Docker, LXC, FreeBSD jails and Linux-VServer, among others [6, 13, 25, 42].”
Container-based operating system virtualization: a scalable, high-performance alternative to hypervisors (2007, background): “INTRODUCTION Operating system designers face a fundamental tension between isolating applications and enabling sharing among them to simultaneously support the illusion that each application has the physical machine to itself, yet let applications share objects (e.g., .les, pipes) with each…”
PlanetLab: an overlay testbed for broad-coverage services (2003, methodology): “Examplesof thisapproachinclude LinuxVServers[10],The BSD Jail [11], User-Mode Linux [24], and commercial offerings such asEnsim sPrivateServertechnology[7].”