Fig. 1

An overview of the LPMX system architecture. LPMX contains a command line interface (CLI) and a dynamic library wrapping filesystem-related standard C library functions and faking the file system to provide its features. LPMX can manage the life cycles of created containers and download, import and maintain external images and tarballs. By configuring containers mappings, such as executable mapping, processes that reside inside containers can make direct calls to processes on the host or in other containers