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From: Lucas Francesco <lucas.francesco93@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Containers
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:29:10 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF=5iUUKJW6r+_HwG-kzZhMCTug4ZxrS-1SttxNSDweRGv5d6g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF=5iUXOXxYr5w5+jxjZ2hwF6b2fumXb2MXfnsBQC-a0Ndg8Ow@mail.gmail.com>

oops, i meant spawngrid, not plan9ants.

On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 11:28, Lucas Francesco
<lucas.francesco93@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The best container that can exist is called a process with its own
> namespace and place to write/exist. If you really any form/gimmick of
> "contenarization" (the linux-grade thing, with a snapshot of the whole
> container and importing/exporting between machines thing)  I think you
> should checkout how plan9ants was setup on top of 9front (but with
> venti-backed fossil rootscores ) to give on-demand isolated cpu
> servers with its own root on a specific namespace (it was all on the
> same kernel, not virtualized, but different /root and enviroment for
> each user)
>
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 04:27, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 10:38:58PM -0500, Jubal Biggs wrote:
> > > Hey, general question; has anyone been able to set up a containerized
> > > service (Docker or otherwise) on Plan9? I guess it requires the Linux
> > > kernel, which would not be optimal to run on top of a Plan9 environment,
> > > but that sort of virtualization would open up a whole universe of
> > > possibilities.
> >
> > Plan 9 doesn't need containerization; we have user-controllable
> > namespaces, which is the feature that Linux container tools poorly
> > imitate.  We do have some virtualization software, if you want to
> > artificially cripple your environment and then inadequately reconstruct
> > the features you left behind by booting a Linux kernel.
> >
> > khm

      reply	other threads:[~2021-11-30 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-30  3:38 Jubal Biggs
2021-11-30  5:48 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-11-30 14:28   ` Lucas Francesco
2021-11-30 14:29     ` Lucas Francesco [this message]

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