ZeroVM – Hyperscale Cloud Infrastructure

http://www.zerovm.org/

by schwuk • 12 years ago

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nl4• 12 years ago

Ha.

I wrote about a ZeroVM-on-Docker thing I was working[1] on in another thread just before this story showed up.

Note that ZeroVM isn't a conventional VM at all. All your software needs recompiling for it, and it is entirely deterministic (with all the positive and negative aspects of that).

For one set of use-cases this is very useful. I was looking at using it to run untrusted user-submitted, and potentially hostile code when a Docker container isn't sufficient on its own.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107151

walterbell4• 12 years ago

See also the "Containers don't contain" talk from RedHat at DockerCon:

http://blog.docker.com/2014/07/new-dockercon-video-docker-se...

http://opensource.com/business/14/7/docker-security-selinux

nl4• 12 years ago

The SELinux talks looks interesting. I spent a while trying to get SELinux and Docker working together[1]. I'll need to watch that.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/docker-user/SELin...

VikingCoder• 12 years ago

I'm glad this exists. I wanted to do something similar, when I first heard about Native Client.

Kalium4• 12 years ago

Ah! This was a TechStars Cloud^H^H^H Rackspace company that got bought by Rackspace.

mgirdley• 12 years ago

I disagree on the ^H's. In practice, AWS and SoftLayer spent as much or more time with the 2013 class than the Rackspace people did. I don't know about 2012 though...

Kalium4• 12 years ago

San Antonio was never an accidental or incidental choice of venue. It's also not a place where either AWS or SoftLayer has a major presence.

It's also hard not to think of it as TechStars Rackspace when you're in a space sponsored by Rackspace, run by a former Rackspace exec, in a building named for the Rackspace chairman, and in a program administered by a former Rackspace exec. With Rackspace sponsoring, of course.

icefox• 12 years ago

http://docs.zerovm.org/clitools.html#zvsh-and-zvapp The link to the docs are broken for zvsh and zvapp

duaneb• 12 years ago

That's a big constant performance hit to take, even at scale. However, this would be great for a) untrusted code and b) another level of portability for writing c programs.

e12e2• 12 years ago

Can anyone more familiar with ZeroVM point out what's new?

Previous submissions/discussions:

Two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746222

About a year ago, acquisition by Rackspace: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6588566

e12e2• 12 years ago

The similarities with Joyent's Manta is quite interesting:

(From January 2014): http://www.rackspace.com/blog/zerovm-design-summit-day-1-dig...

While I haven't played with Manta, the architecture really appeals to me -- it's nice to see more implementations along similar lines (but sadly, presumably, without zfs or equivalent ...).

ZeroVM – Hyperscale Cloud Infrastructure

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