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OSv, a new open-source operating system for virtual machines
- olsonjeffery 13y agoHas there been anything like this, aside from Singularity OS, in recent years? The license, vis-a-vis Singularity, is obviously much more appealing. Definitely something to keep an eye on.
- pjmlp 13y agoThere is Drawbridge, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/, which follows the idea of having the whole OS as a library with a pico hypervisor. Then you have all the language runtimes that run directly on the hardware, like Erlang on Xen, MirageOS and so on.
- Meai 13y agoIt says it's optimized for single executing applications and "cloud workloads". Well, isn't there always going to be at least monitoring software running on my server? So that would be 2 applications already.
- auggierose 13y agoI guess you would monitor the virtual machine from the outside, not from within.
- ogrisel 13y agoAssuming host OS is Linux, I wonder what are the benefit of "KVM + OSv + my_app" vs "LXC + my_app" (e.g. via docker.io).
- rlpb 13y agoIt sounds like this just reinvents the "process". We already have virtualisation of processes; that's what OSes do already. So this just sounds like a minimal Linux. What am I missing?
- jacobquick 13y ago"Another refreshing feature of OSv is that is written in C++. It's been 40 years since Unix was (re)written in C, and the time has come for something better." can't stop laughing