Re: LuaJIT-on-Xen?
- From: Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 08:54:45 +0400
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 8:40 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> There are several projects that aim to launch an application framework
>> as a Xen VM instance without OS.
<...>
>> This kind of feat should be possible with LuaJIT too, and it looks
>> like an interesting and potentially very useful project.
<...>
> Xen itself (as of a few years ago) is pretty well documented in "The
> Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor". But it's not clear to me that
> there are advantages to Xen as a hypervisor relative to, say, kvm or
> even LXC.
Well, Xen vs. kvm is debatable, but, AFAIK, LXC does not allow any
meaningful resource management, and reuses the host kernel. We had
this with OpenVZ years ago, and that was quite enough..
> If you're stuck on a Xen host, of course, yes, it would be
> nice to be able to toss the OS in the DomU out and get down to "bare
> metal" Xen.
Are you suggesting that it will be easier with, say, kvm?
Alexander.
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