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> Who needs nested virtualization when you have bare metal? AWS's non-bare-metal systems can boot in ~10s with enough tuning. Their bare-metal systems take te
by JoshTriplett 6y ago
> Who needs nested virtualization when you have bare metal?
AWS's non-bare-metal systems can boot in ~10s with enough tuning.
Their bare-metal systems take tens of minutes to boot.
Nested virtualization would allow scaling up and starting new nodes much faster.
- p0rkbelly 6y agoIf you have a use case for spinning up nodes fast -- what is the use for nested virtualization? Sounds like that should be containers on any underlying single-virtualized layer?
- JoshTriplett 6y agoSometimes you want the safer isolation of virtualization, and you want to spin up individual workload elements in virtual machines.