Re: A practical and compelling distributed cap platform: Sandstorm on Cap'n Proto

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:

> As a regular Xen host, you should be able to run any normal Linux
> guest alongside the unikernels.


Yes. Of course, that's considerably heavier than a Linux container.


> Presumably, sandstorm could itself be
> one of the guest VMs.
>

Indeed.

In the long run, I hope that people will start writing Sandstorm apps in an
object-capability language, at which point the need for Linux containers
for sandboxing goes away and multiple users can even be served from the
same process, making things even more efficient. At that point it may make
a lot of sense to further transition to running more directly on top of
Nymote, getting rid of the legacy Linux kernel entirely.

It's a long road, though.

-Kenton

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