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Re:CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket by losnggenration on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @02:07AM (#8686061)
> Wouldn't it be cool if projects like Packer[1] didn't have to exist, because the image format of Virtual Machines was open and documented as an independent standard?

Is what I should have quoted in my reply. Nobody was talking about using one instead of the other. Though, it'd be easy enough to run, for instance, CoreOS from an OVF image to run containers from. Though, I feel like you and I are just stating the obvious at this point. Wouldn't you agree?

Re:CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket by cbsmith on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @02:25AM (#8686093)
I would.