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by wil421 1798 days ago
Sounds like Jails in FreeBSD. Wikipedia says they were added in 1999.
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And Zones on Solaris :) phk was the original author of Jails; he wrote an excellent paper called “Defying the omnipotent root”, which I can highly recommend.
*Confining the omnipotent root
Yes indeed! Brain fart, apologies.
And LPARs on System z :)
Both LPARS and z/VM look more like hypervisors to me. Things like containers and chroot probably don't make much sense in the mainframe world since they already had granular facilities to limit access to networks, data sets, etc.
And VMs on IBM VM/370.
Aren’t lpars quite a lot different in nature than zones and jails though?