Re:FreeBSD on Firecracker
by tptacek on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:41PM
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gvisor isn't simply a process isolation model. Security experts will certainly sign off on gvisor for some multitenant workloads. The reason Google is moving from it, to the extent they are, is that hypervisors are more performant for more common workloads.
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Re:FreeBSD on Firecracker
by yencabulator on Friday August 25, 2023 @03:01PM
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I read "we got tired of reimplementing Linux kernel syscalls and functionality" as the reason. Like network file systems. The Cloud Run client base kept asking for more and more features, and they punted to just running the Linux kernel.