5.10 Merge window, part 1

Posted Oct 21, 2020 7:21 UTC (Wed) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)
In reply to: 5.10 Merge window, part 1 by josh
Parent article: 5.10 Merge window, part 1

You have to rewrite your application to use them. Nested virtualization is mostly useful for test deployments of kubernetes clusters and the like. If you want virtualization on AWS you have to fork out the money and get bare metal instances, period.

5.10 Merge window, part 1

Posted Oct 21, 2020 21:40 UTC (Wed) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]

> You have to rewrite your application to use them.

Only if your application started out assuming more devices than just a vsock.

> If you want virtualization on AWS you have to fork out the money and get bare metal instances, period.

Money isn't the issue. Bare-metal instances take an incredibly long time to start up (~10 minutes), compared to virtualized instances (~5-10 seconds, which is already far too long).