David Thompson <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > >> "Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis: >> >>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Any other ideas come to mind? >>> >>> How about adding container support to 'guix system'? There are some >>> good problems to be solved there. >> >> What do you have in mind exactly? (“Container” is often used with >> subtly different meanings it seems.) > > I mean container in the sense that Docker[0] has popularized. Instead > of deploying a system on a VM, you could deploy it to a "container" on a > host system, which isolates the system via Linux's cgroups and kernel > namespaces. Nix supports installing systems in these sorts of > containers via systemd-nspawn. We'd have to write our own tool, as > discussed in a thread a few months back. > > Does this help?
Yes, thanks for clarifying. It sounds like a good idea. Could you write a few lines on this to add to the GSoC ideas page? Thanks, Ludo’.
