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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ian Denhardt <ian@zenhack.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Containers on Guix
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:31:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fynf8gh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141122165126.19565.59657@vulcan.local.tld> (Ian Denhardt's message of "Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:51:27 -0500")

Ian Denhardt <ian@zenhack.net> skribis:

> I'm sure there are other things already packaged that don't really have
> any hope of working on top of another kernel.

I think packages that are Linux-specific by design are all in (gnu
packages linux).

> This is going to be hard to do portably, but I don't think it's worth
> worrying about too much yet.

Yes, agreed.

> Probably some work will have to happen upstream on the Hurd project.

The Hurd supports fine-grain virtualization, so it wouldn’t be hard to
do (“sub-hurds” correspond to completely isolated containers, launching
a separate ‘proc’ server gives you a separate PID name space, etc.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-22 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-20  2:34 Containers on Guix David Thompson
2014-11-20  2:36 ` David Thompson
2014-11-20 13:30 ` 宋文武
2014-11-20 14:08   ` Thompson, David
2014-11-20 20:49   ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-20 21:24     ` Thompson, David
2014-11-21  4:10     ` David Thompson
2014-11-21  9:16       ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-20 14:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-22 16:51 ` Ian Denhardt
2014-11-22 17:31   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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