Re: [Publicity] Seems the VM vs container debate is heating up

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also this tells us that whatever tecnology we choose to have upstream
QEMU stubdoms, we should make sure it is easy to use for other POSIX
applications too, so that we can advertise it as a generic solution for
Xen micro-VMs and position it as a secure alternative to containers.

On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Given that most people only use one VM for one task, the rise of
> "micro-VMs" makes sense, whether they are based on OSv (miniOS or rump
> kernels) on traditional hypervisors or on Docker, ZeroVM or other types
> of containers.
> 
> However what these articles don't take into account is that Xen can
> already handle both kind of workloads extremely well: Xen can handle fat
> old-style VMs, with HVM guests, and new style lightweight micro-VMs,
> with miniOS (or rump kernels or OSv) inside a PV guest.
> 
> If I manage to carve the time to do it I might be able to write a blog
> post about it.
> 
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Lars Kurth wrote:
> > See:
> > 
> > * 
> > http://blogs.bromium.com/2014/04/07/vms-the-new-infrastructure-anachronism/
> > * On the other hand there is this article:
> > http://www.zdnet.com/hypervisors-are-the-pillars-of-the-cloud-not-the-achilles-heel-7000027931/
> > (both by Simon Crosby)
> > 
> > Generally for the security discussion, which is related, the following
> > articles may be relevant:
> > *
> > http://www.zdnet.com/hypervisors-the-clouds-potential-security-achilles-heel-7000027846/
> > * http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2014/03/computer-security
> > The following two may also be useful (and contain quite a few useful links)
> > despite also being partly a product pitch:
> > *
> > http://blogs.bromium.com/2013/03/27/micro-virtualization-for-the-security-architect/
> > *
> > http://blogs.bromium.com/2013/04/24/micro-virtualization-for-the-security-architect-2-of-2-isolation-%E2%89%A0-protection/
> > 
> > Lars
> > 
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