From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GSoC project ideas
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:01:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sidr8q5o.fsf@fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbio7h7s.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Any other ideas come to mind?
>>
>> How about adding container support to 'guix system'? There are some
>> good problems to be solved there.
>
> What do you have in mind exactly? (“Container” is often used with
> subtly different meanings it seems.)
I mean container in the sense that Docker[0] has popularized. Instead
of deploying a system on a VM, you could deploy it to a "container" on a
host system, which isolates the system via Linux's cgroups and kernel
namespaces. Nix supports installing systems in these sorts of
containers via systemd-nspawn. We'd have to write our own tool, as
discussed in a thread a few months back.
Does this help?
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_%28software%29
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-27 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-24 15:45 GSoC project ideas Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-24 15:54 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-02-24 23:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-25 6:45 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2015-02-25 15:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-25 15:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-26 15:50 ` Thompson, David
2015-02-26 16:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-27 13:01 ` David Thompson [this message]
2015-02-27 17:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-04 23:04 ` David Thompson
2015-03-06 12:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
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