Re: [Publicity] Docker versus Virtual Machines

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Lars Kurth wrote:
> On 06/08/2015 09:30, "Ian Campbell" <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 19:16 +0100, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> >> Btw, I notice in the article that you state that Docker containers
> >>cannot 
> >> [...] support non-Linux workloads.  In Dockercon recently, they
> >> demonstrated [...] Windows containers running. (See
> >> https://blog.docker.com/2015/06/runc/)
> >
> >That's Windows containers running on Windows, I think? As opposed to
> >Windows running on a non-Windows system.
> 
> That is probably correct. And the article says "Native support of Windows
> 10 containers is being contributed directly by Microsoft engineers", which
> implies the support is not yet there, although it may be at some point.
> 
> >So I think it would still be accurate to say that docker cannot support
> >"non-native" containers or something like that[0]? Which is essentially
> >the
> >old homogeneous kernel issue with containers.
> 
> Maybe we can phrase this more accurately.

Good points, thanks!

I changed it to:

"Their live-migration support is still very green and they cannot run
non-native workloads (Windows on Linux or Linux on Windows)."

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