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From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:01:07 -0500
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To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wr=
ote:
>>>
>>> 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?  (=E2=80=9CContainer=E2=80=9D 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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