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Neither, Microsoft is creating the equivalents (and more) in the Windows Kernel in the next version of Windows Server and contributing the api compatibility to
by nickstinemates 11y ago
Neither, Microsoft is creating the equivalents (and more) in the Windows Kernel in the next version of Windows Server and contributing the api compatibility to runC
- geertj 11y agoThis would for running a Windows container, I assume? Microsoft implementing the Linux system call ABI, now that would be truly amazing. I guess it's possible (FreeBSD does some of this), but I guess this is not that?
- delinka 11y agoJudging by the context here, I'm guessing that they're implementing a virtualization API that's capable of creating VMs which run anything an x86 processor can run.
- nickstinemates 11y agoYes, this is for windows specific workloads. Not the ability to virtualize the Linux ABI in Windows. That's what VMs are for.
- tlrobinson 11y agoJoyent did that for SmartOS with their "Triton" project, which lets you run Docker containers on their (SmartOS) cloud.