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Excellent article. I like the sound of OSv, which attempts to make appliances that run on hypervisors: https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv https://github.co
by logn 12y ago
Excellent article. I like the sound of OSv, which attempts to make appliances that run on hypervisors: https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv
Sandstorm looks interesting. I'm slightly skeptical as the homepage has a link to their enterprise sales, yet it's hyped as a project of good will. I'd like to hear more about their business model. From a technical side, the project makes a lot of sense. But I'd rather see something like OSv be made to run on users' machines and phones and not just cloud systems, which would let app authors distribute directly to users with little hassle.
- vegedor 12y agoOKL4 is a microkernel with hypervisor installed on a huge number of broadband processors for really low level tasks. The Linux that is Android also runs on L4, IIRC some comments on HN. These factoids always feels like missing the point, because you didn't really name any argument so I don't know what gain is implied for the user or app-dev. One advantage is distributed scalability, but distributed computing doesn't (yet?) matter in consumer apps. Another I see are less version compatibility issues in fixed images, although communicating apps - same for secure isolation.