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).

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:38 AM, gt wrote:

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.

arch-chroot — chrooting into an existing environment, using on the Arch install medium to get to your brand new root you pacstrap’d ten seconds ago (or for recovery of an existing root). mkarchroot — creating a brand new Arch Linux environment/root. So, two different things when you think about it. -- Kwpolska http://kwpolska.tk stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16