Re: [arch-general] Difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot

Am 15.01.2013 09:38, schrieb gt:

Can someone elaborate on the difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot?

Basically, i want a chrooted environment for testing some program.

Alternatively, is there any other better way to create an isolated environment, apart from chroot and VMs.

mkarchroot creates a new system root. If you want to test a program in an isolated environment, I suggest you look into systemd-nspawn. If you want more security, libvirt-lxc may be your friend (it seems lxc is broken in many ways and doesn't work right with systemd, libvirt-lxc however seems to be fine, I tested neither).