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[[!meta title="LXC still insecure (since 2011)"]]
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For a customer of mine I was researching whether
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we could use [LXC](http://linuxcontainers.org/) for
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virtualisation.
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The customer is migrating to Debian 7,
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[which does not contain OpenVZ anymore](https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVz).
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Although the
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[Debian template bug](http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.containers.lxc.general/5102) is still not fixed, I first thought it would still
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be usable when writing our own templates. But it turns
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out that LXC still allows to
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[execute code as root on the host since 2011](http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_413).
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More background information for those of you who are currently considering
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LXC:
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* [Ubuntu / User Namespaces in Linux](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserNamespace)
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* [Gentoo Wiki](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LXC#MAJOR_Temporary_Problems_with_LXC_-_READ_THIS)
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* [Debian Bug Report](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680469)
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So for the moment my recommendation is [QEMU](http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page) (KVM has been merged back into QEMU!).
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[[!tag lxc vm unix]]
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