- Investigated technologies
- Olive (olivearchive.org): mainly developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
Three main ideas: Internet Suspend/Resume (allow a user to start using a VM before it is fully downloaded), indexing and searching of VM images, incrementally composing VM images. The last 2 have been done in Docker, below.
Impression: academic quality, feature and quality do not seem a good fit for Brown Dog project.
- OpenVZ (openvz.org): a community project, supported by the company Parallels, Inc. An OS-level virtualization technology based on the Linux kernel and
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- OpenVZ (openvz.org): a community project, supported by the company Parallels, Inc. An OS-level virtualization technology based on the Linux kernel and
Impression: server consolidation, web hosting. Seems to be production quality. For Linux only, so at least does not seem a good fit for the high-level VM architecture technology.
- Docker (docker.com): automates the deployment of applications inside software containers, providing abstraction and automation of operating system–level virtualization on Linux.
Impression: popular, under active development. Similar to OpenVZ, an OS-level virtualization technology: a container runs the same kernel as the host, so at least does not seem a good fit for the high-level VM architecture technology.
- Docker (docker.com): automates the deployment of applications inside software containers, providing abstraction and automation of operating system–level virtualization on Linux.