Containers are a lightweight virtualization technology. They are more akin to an enhanced chroot than to full virtualization. Tthey do not emulate hardware and containers share the same operating system as the host. The kernel version of the containers are the same as the host machine
# yum install lxc.x86_64
# lxc-checkconfig
# yum install lxc-templates.x86_64
# yum install debootstrap
# yum install -y libvirt