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Bare metal generally means running on the host OS without any virtualization layer. Or used to mean that.
by sys_64738 5y ago
Bare metal generally means running on the host OS without any virtualization layer. Or used to mean that.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoIt means running on the hardware. bootloaders, kernels, hypervisors, dos apps, most embedded, grub invaders, efi/bios, are things which run on bare metal. A process that runs inside an OS, is running inside an OS. This is like when they redefined "literally" to literally mean figuratively. OK fine "language changes" but then now what word does the job that "literally" used to do? We had a word to express a concept, and now that word means the exact opposite of that concept, or worse, may still meam either one, making it meaningless and non-functional.
- yesenadam 5y agoI once complained on HN how appearances of literally in the new sense were driving me nuts. It was explained to me that it's nowadays used as an intensifier—and has been for nearly 100 years, and my impression the change was recent was probably just the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. Although unconvinced, I gave up that fight and retreated to my usual protesting that a method and a methodology are two very different things, although it seems everything is a methodology these days. Longer is better?