[baruch]

It can't be competing with LXC, with LXC you can do over-provisioning of the server and maximize the utilization. With Jailhouse you under-subscribe your system in order to get maximal separation and performance guarantees.

I can see using this for real-time applications alongside management stuff and for separating critical and possibly buggy kernel drivers to where they can't harm the rest of the system.

[rbanffy]

Be fair. It can be said they compete, but, due to their very different design priorities, they don't compete directly.

I don't think the benchmarks make much sense in this situation, unless you measure server utilization and performance guarantees (which is the dimension in which they differentiate themselves).

[baruch]

You are right.

One could use LXC for completely allocating a CPU for some container so they can compete on one aspect. LXC still doesn't run on bare-metal and so can't take on the cpu separation for hardware accesses but there is a dimension in which they compete.

[rbanffy]

That's a really interesting idea - LXC and Jailhouse can be stacked in order to achieve both of their design goals.