Re: [Publicity] Docker versus Virtual Machines

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 6 Aug 2015, at 10:15, Stefano Stabellini 
> <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2015, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
>> On 5 Aug 2015, at 17:27, Stefano Stabellini 
>> <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 5 Aug 2015, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
>>>> On 5 Aug 2015, at 12:27, Stefano Stabellini 
>>>> <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I wrote a "Docker versus Virtual Machines" article for the Xen Project
>>>>> blog, let me know what you think!
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://blog.xenproject.org/?p=10910&preview=true
>>>> 
>>>> I like it all except for the title, which bears no resemblance to the
>>>> contents of the post (which is about how VMs are complementary to
>>>> Docker's future).  How about "Docker: meet virtual machines", or something
>>>> similar?
>>> 
>>> Yes, I think you are right.
>>> What about "Docker and the future of Virtual Machines"?
>> 
>> Something a little more specific? "Using Docker as a Virtual Machine 
>> manager" or something (not quite right).
> 
> What about starting with the simple question that is phrased at the
> beginning of the article:
> 
> "Will Docker replace Virtual Machines?"

Excellent! That sounds good to me.

One epic hack that is a non-native container is Joyent's Linux-ABI-in-Illumos, 
which uses runs Docker Linux containers natively in Illumos: 
https://www.joyent.com/blog/2014-in-review-docker-rising

It's possible to do, appears to be used in production, but is clearly very 
complex.  Unsure how to phrase that in a blog post :-)

-anil




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