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> We should need neither VMs nor Containers. The process isolation and environment virtualization provided by the OS should be sufficient, that's what it is the
by travem 12y ago
> We should need neither VMs nor Containers. The process isolation and environment virtualization provided by the OS should be sufficient, that's what it is there for.
This is of course assuming that there is a common OS that supports the applications that people actually want to deploy. Virtualization at the x86 level has taken off partly because of the support for mixed operating systems. This has provided operations teams additional flexibility and enabled some consolidation of disparate workloads on shared hardware.
- mpweiher 12y ago>This is of course assuming that there is a common OS that supports the applications that people actually want to deploy. I think you missed: "(they're fine for OS/hardware simulation etc.)"
- travem 12y agoThanks for pointing that out, I didn't catch the precise scope of the problem you were calling out in my initial reading.