Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU

Re:Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU by ghshephard on Thursday May 21, 2015 @11:54PM (#9586511)

New Industries (EC2 and friends) in hosting/cloud services were created with the advent of convenient virtualization. technologies.

I wonder what types of services/industries will be created when you can reliably spin up a hosted instance in 40-60 ms.

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Re:Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU by vidarh on Friday May 22, 2015 @05:04AM (#9587221)

I don't want to spin up instances. I want to spin up functions.

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Re:Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU by ghshephard on Friday May 22, 2015 @06:25AM (#9587423)

Essentially that's what a call out to Amazon's varied AWS services are though, right?

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Re:Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU by vidarh on Friday May 22, 2015 @06:46AM (#9587512)

Except that means you're calling out to fixed functions except for with Lambda, but the overheads with Lambda are still orders of magnitude above what you'd want for it to be practical to just decompose your app into functions run separately like that.

To be fair, making a system like that efficient is an unsolved problem even in far more tightly integrated supercomputer systems - IO quickly becomes a massive bottleneck and current hardware is CPU rich and IO poor.

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