Only through libvirt, which by design only exposes the lowest common denominator among all supported backends. Docker needs its own native backend for the same

Only through libvirt, which by design only exposes the lowest common denominator among all supported backends. Docker needs its own native backend for the same reason Xen has its own: so it can do more cool stuff. See [1] and [2] for more details. It looks like the blueprint just got approved, too! [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/new-hypervisor-docker https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/new-hypervisor-d... [2] https://github.com/dotcloud/openstack-docker/blob/082fac0c55835a2197eb3fd7756221a98005b487/docs/nova_blueprint.md https://github.com/dotcloud/openstack-docker/blob/082fac0c55...