Re: GSoC project ideas

[Ludovic Courtès]

David Thompson <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> "Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Any other ideas come to mind?
>>>
>>> How about adding container support to 'guix system'?  There are some
>>> good problems to be solved there.
>>
>> What do you have in mind exactly?  (“Container” is often used with
>> subtly different meanings it seems.)
>
> I mean container in the sense that Docker[0] has popularized.  Instead
> of deploying a system on a VM, you could deploy it to a "container" on a
> host system, which isolates the system via Linux's cgroups and kernel
> namespaces.  Nix supports installing systems in these sorts of
> containers via systemd-nspawn.  We'd have to write our own tool, as
> discussed in a thread a few months back.
>
> Does this help?

Yes, thanks for clarifying.  It sounds like a good idea.  Could you
write a few lines on this to add to the GSoC ideas page?

Thanks,
Ludo’.