Mostly used for virtual network appliances and web services, we used Firecracker on OpenNebula. That is a feature we used and liked, however, we could not appreciate their storage paradigm but then again the networking was too basic for our needs.
Antoine Boucher antoi...@haltondc.com [o] +1-226-505-9734 www.haltondc.com “Data security made simple and affordable” Confidentiality Warning: This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s), are confidential, and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, retransmission, conversion to hard copy, copying, circulation or other use of this message and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message and any attachments from your system. > On Mar 3, 2022, at 10:41 AM, Nux <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: > > Antoine, > > Out of curiosity, what would be your use/business case for such microVM > feature? > > Perhaps I'm misinformed, but had a quick look at it and it's just a "slim" > KVM. It seems like it would make sense to use something like this if you have > significant "serverless" type of workloads, or indeed sell such thing > publicly. > I can see why Amazon wants Firecracker, it goes with their narrative (and > "hype" may I add) for "serverless". > > PS: Opennebula is pretty nice, love the "contextualisation", very powerful; > but yeah, quirky, like everything else. > > --- > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > On 2022-03-03 15:30, Antoine Boucher wrote: >> microVM support is definitely a feature I’m missing that we were >> accustom to from OpenNebula, fortunately CloudStack makes up for many >> OpenNebula weirdness… >> -Antoine >>> On Mar 3, 2022, at 10:04 AM, Wei ZHOU <ustcweiz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Ricardo, >>> CloudStack does not support customized qemu machine type for vms or >>> templates (All VMs use `pc` or `q35`) . >>> The feature is currently on our idea board. >>> -Wei >>> On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 13:00, Ricardo Pertuz <ricardo.per...@kuasar.co> >>> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> Is there a way to deploy microvm (firecracker approach) using qemu on >>>> Cloudstack? >>>> As explained in this link >>>> https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/i386/microvm.html >>>> Regards,
