Re: Environment containers

[Efraim Flashner]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:32:54 +0100
Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thompson, David <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hello Guix hackers,
> >
> > I am pleased to announce that the patch for adding Linux container
> > support to 'guix environment' has just landed in master!  
> 
> Yay!  Thank you so much for your work on this!
> 
> > 2) There are no disk images.  Disk images are opaque blobs that are
> > often not reproducible, whereas the items in the Guix store tell you
> > the full story of how the software came to be.  Thus, Guix containers
> > do not worry at all about the complications involved with layering
> > disk images in an overlayfs-style setup.  They are simply not needed.  
> 
> Beautiful!

agreed.

address@hidden:~$ ls -la /gnu/store/*sh
-r-xr-xr-x 27 root root         1425560 Jan  1  1970 
/gnu/store/gvwf71vddp8c1d7ydqg02p43mgdjrx6s-bash
-r--r--r--  2 root root            1153 Jan  1  1970 
/gnu/store/jd51fxgzf2bj3v9naliq44vgcib06ay9-build-bootstrap-guile.sh
-r-xr-xr-x 27 root root         1351732 Jan  1  1970 
/gnu/store/mzfkrxd4w8vqrmyrx169wj8wyw7r8i37-bash
-r--r--r--  2 root root            1153 Jan  1  1970 
/gnu/store/x06d80rn9lxbh3305pkizf4k2dswsbn1-build-bootstrap-guile.sh
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root guix-builder     765 Jan  1  1970 
/gnu/store/zrnjijsg19f52ficwlk4n5cccf6smhya-run-vm.sh

765 bytes is the smallest VM I've ever seen :)


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