Re: [Publicity] Docker versus Virtual Machines

[Sarah Conway <sconway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question, when will this run? I'd like to send it to a few reporters in advance. Maybe tee it up for Monday or Tuesday so I can pitch reporters tomorrow and Monday? I would like to add some promos to the end re: relevant talks at XenDevSummit and CloudOpen too.

SarahÂ

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> 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
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> > 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

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