We will install a current Debian release to a build environment which will spawn in an isolated light-weight namespace container. mount /var/lib/machines/build debootstrap –arch amd64 bookworm /var/lib/machines/build/ http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ Create a start script to spawn the container. cat << EOF > ~/bin/c-buildstart.sh #!/bin/sh mount /var/lib/machines/build systemd-nspawn -D /var/lib/machines/build EOF Copy custom shell configuration to the container. […]

We will use systemd-nspawn to create a container that will use a fully isolated environment. This environment will use a virtualized filesystem and process hierarchy. It will allow us to install Linux-based operating systems on our host. We can change to our container to compile packages or to launch a virtual OS image. Create a […]