Cloud product kernel requirements
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Wed Oct 30 15:08:39 UTC 2013
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:07:46AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 4) Other "cloudy" stuff that I'm entirely unaware of that might be
> relevant. Explain it to me like I'm a child.
I guess this would be a bad time to mention User-Mode Linux ...? Even
I'm not sure if I'm joking here or not, but UML works (surprisingly)
and turns out to be more efficient and more reliable than KVM inside a
VM (eg. in a cloud instance).
http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#user-mode-linux-backend
Rich.
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