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Like others here, I am unconvinced that there is any benefit to basically using virtual machines as heavyweight processes. The existence of at least one multi-t
by mwcampbell 13y ago
Like others here, I am unconvinced that there is any benefit to basically using virtual machines as heavyweight processes. The existence of at least one multi-tenant IaaS provider (Joyent) and a few multi-tenant PaaS providers (Heroku, dotCloud) using OS-level virtualization suggests that a shared kernel running multiple processes provides enough isolation.
- yalogin 13y agoI am not so sure. I would say there is a market for both. There are things that LXC based solutions cannot do yet. Solutions around VMs are very mature and offer features like live migration of apps for e.g. by which I mean they even do monitoring of apps running on the data center.