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Subject: Re: GSoC project ideas
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:13:13 +0100
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To: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
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David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> 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> w=
rote:
>>>>
>>>> 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?

Yes, thanks for clarifying.  It sounds like a good idea.  Could you
write a few lines on this to add to the GSoC ideas page?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.