KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management [LWN.net]

KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management

Posted Mar 24, 2010 22:43 UTC (Wed) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
In reply to: KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management by sorpigal
Parent article: KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management

... and this would nicely solve the issues brought up in the recent lwn feature "Applications and bundled libraries". Just distribute firefox or chrome or OO.o or whatever as a virtual machine, all dependencies included.

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KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management

Posted Mar 25, 2010 5:45 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

Absurd overkill!

If you want to eliminate dependency problems, just bundle the libraries and arrange load paths appropriately. No need to bundle the whole OS as well! I believe PC-BSD and some minor Linux distro I forget already handles packages this way.

It seems to me the current virtualization fad is rather sad. It really is motivated by hardware being better at keeping stable interfaces than software, but results in lots of wasted resources and energy.