The official announce email ( <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/574273/" rel="nofollow">https://lwn.net/Articles/574273/</a> ) provides a bit more detail, including a link to the Jailhouse presentation at this year's KVM Forum for the differences between KVM and Jailhouse:
<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6HTUUWSPdd-Zl93MVhlMnRJRjg" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6HTUUWSPdd-Zl93MVhlMnRJRjg</a>
This is interesting, in that it seems to be in compeiting space to LXC.. but makes use of VMX for machine isolation rather than using namespace / cgroups.<p>It's a shame they haven't provided some benchmarks...
I've been working with FreeBSD Jails for quite a while now and this looks like a clone for Linux.<p>For those who don't know, a FreeBSD Jail is a virtualization on the OS level (rather than Hardware level as provided by VirtualBox et al). It's similar in concept to creating a chroot, but you're also locking down processes.<p><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html</a>