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[wmf]

Or you could keep the convenience while dumping the overhead by using Docker. As a bonus you also get to be cool.

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Docker is still a full Linux kernel. The point of MirageOS is that your app is the kernel.

[eru → mikepurvis]

For MirageOS, Xen is the kernel.

But Xen is smaller than Linux.

[mikepurvis → eru]

My impression is that typical docker deployments have them sitting on VMs anyway— so it's the worst of both worlds in that scenario.