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Hasztoday at 4:08 PM1 replyview on HN

Hello, cool project!

Can you explain to me what the benefit of using this is versus something like an LXC container? It is currently my preferred "temp dev env" that behaves like a full system. It can also be customized with cloud-init to load up my preferred settings.


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hnavtoday at 4:10 PM

gVisor virtualizes all syscalls which pass through a host userspace golang process that then maps onto the host's syscalls.

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