> What I'm after is something akin to a Solaris sparse Zone.
At one point I was going to write a virtio 9p extension to qemu to
do
this.
This sounds interesting, could you elaborate a little? 9p? We're using
a lot of KVM and libguest FS here besides this web hosting
requirement.
Supermin appliances give you a disk image (or cpio file, if you
prefer). They don't give you a host filesystem, so they're probably
not going to be much use for LXC, without a great deal of hacking.
I think the penny is dropping. What febootstrap is doing internally is
similar to what I'm after but it's output is different. Obvious in
hindsight :)
I think I'll take this element to the LXC lists now. Many thanks.
Carwyn