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mpe | 8 years ago

Zones are not VMs. If you need to vent your Linux hate at least save it for a post about Docker.

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Annatar|8 years ago

I don’t need to be patronized on the difference between zones and VM’s as I’m also one of those VMware users from 1999 in Brendan’s article.

Zones however are superior to VM’s because they don’t require hard pre-allocation of resources like virtual machines do, so they are a superior choice in environments where Windows isn’t desired or required.

As for my Linux hate, if Linux were so great and well made, I wouldn’t hate it. I like well made things.

aquadrop|8 years ago

> Zones however are superior to VM’s because they don’t require hard pre-allocation of resources like virtual machines do, so they are a superior choice in environments where Windows isn’t desired or required.

In public cloud that's not a problem, that's a requirement, so one VM wouldn't trash all its neighbors.

hyperbovine|8 years ago

> As for my Linux hate, if Linux were so great and well made, I wouldn’t hate it.

With Linux running on ~10^11 devices, everything from watches to supercomputers to the Falcon 9 rocket, the market disagrees with you to a pretty comical extent.

_wmd|8 years ago

You're arguing one edge of a very much double-edged sword, and I must say (as someone that was deploying the linux-vserver patches by at least 2004) it's incredibly tiring to watch.

orf|8 years ago

You do understand how unsuitable zones are in a public cloud like AWS, right? Why are you even having this discussion.