Re: [Publicity] Docker versus Virtual Machines

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: publicity-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:publicity-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anil Madhavapeddy
> Sent: 06 August 2015 12:13
> To: Stefano Stabellini
> Cc: Lars Kurth; publicity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Publicity] Docker versus Virtual Machines
> 
> 
> > 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 :-)
> 

The concept was around while I was still at Sun ~10 years ago. Google 'linux 
branded zone solaris'. And what was shipped was actually the second iteration 
of the idea (the first one being very hacky).

  Paul

> -anil
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