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Well, over a decade late to this party, but seems like they're being dragged forward.
by MichaelGG 11y ago
Well, over a decade late to this party, but seems like they're being dragged forward.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoLinux was pretty late to the party itself short of heavyweight solutions like Linux-VServer and OpenVZ which require patched kernels. As with most everything related to virtualization, IBM did it first.
- dnm 11y agoI remember using VM/CMS in school, in 1981: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_%28operating_system%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_%28operating_system%29 How much is really new?
- stephengillie 11y agoEverything new is old already.
- MichaelGG 11y agoSure. But ten years ago, people were using OpenVZ widely in hosting and so on. The benefits were very clear. Yet at that time period, Microsoft went in the opposite direction as they thought HDD space was growing without limit. (Vista introduced winsxs and other disk hungry features.)
- bmir-alum-007 11y agoThey were ahead with App-V (Softricity, streamable apps which work offline in lieu of Citrix virtual desktop or Moka5 VMs), but the landscape on servers and VDI changed.
- MichaelGG 11y agoDid that make it possible to deploy, say, IIS and DNS in separate containers, easily? I always saw it sorta aimed at end-user apps. Also note it's yet another licensing hurdle.