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How can I use this to start a system container on e.g. AWS?

You can certainly install Sysbox on an AWS EC2 VM and launch system containers inside that VM.

Note that Sysbox currently requires Ubuntu Linux, because the latest Ubuntu releases use pretty new kernels and carry kernel patches that Sysbox relies on in order to perform some of the OS-virtualization in userland. See this doc for the distros supported by Sysbox:

https://github.com/nestybox/sysbox/blob/master/docs/distro-c...

We are actively working on adding support for more distros.

Ah sorry, I was unclear: I meant Amazon ECS.

Got it; the answer is no, because I believe AWS ECS (Fargate) creates the containers using the OCI runc. In order for them to offer system-containers as a service, AWS ECS would need to run Sysbox on their backend to deploy the containers.

That should be possible with EC2 nodes for your ECS cluster rather than Fargate.

Yes, as long as you can install Sysbox on the EC2 nodes, you are good to go.

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