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Hyper – Hypervisor-agnostic Docker

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>Hypervisor agnostic

>Requires: Docker 1.5 or later QEMU 2.0 or later Xen 4.5 and VT enabled host (for Xen support)

So... not hypervisor agnostic.

edit: I realize it may not be the most popular among the hackernews crowd, but VMware is by far, not even remotely close, the most widely deployed hypervisor in the mid to large enterprise market segment. The graph looks similar to Windows on the desktop numbers. To claim hypervisor agnostic without VMware support is like claiming your desktop app is OS agnostic but doesn't support Windows.

Why not?

No (explicit) VMware, Hyper-V, or bhyve support.

Well, Docker still doesn't support all linux distros, so it doesn't run anywhere.

" VMware is by far, not even remotely close, the most widely deployed hypervisor in the mid to large enterprise market segment"

Citation? Depending on how you count AWS, I'd say Xen is much larger than VMware.

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/maintenance-2015-03/

AWS is a service provider. I specifically said mid to large enterprise segment.

Since IDC tends not to give their reports away the only thing "public" I can find in a quick search: http://www.bobsguide.com/guide/news/2014/Apr/4/server-virtua...

As for my anecdote: out of the 20 fortune 500 companies I work with, the Xen/KVM market share is literally under 1%. Not a single deployed instance beyond a couple corner cases of Citrix for small VDI workloads.

There are a few looking at openstack, but they're still science experiments at this point, and not their production enterprise deployments.

It also runs on Mac! https://hyper.sh/blog/post/2015/07/30/running-containers-fro...

I am proudly noticed that it is developed in China.

That's why i would not want to use it.

If it would be controlled by non-china company outside of china and programmed by chinese programmers then YES i would be interested.

But your government can't be trusted as well as your companies can't be trusted. Sorry.

As opposed to what? MS? Google? Amazon? Apple?

Backdoors, anyone?

As opposed to any other non-iconic giant US corporation.

Interesting, it sounds similar to what AWS is using to power the new Lambda platform securely.

Previous coverage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622325

I couldn't find it in the documentation, but am I right that this only works with full images docker-style, rather than mapped host filesystem? (like novm could)

I'm not sure about Hyper, but I know with qemu-KVM, there is a way to mount host directories inside the VM. It uses the 9p virtio filesystem. Clever use of this with docker volumes could do the trick. I'm not sure what the performance would be though. If you have an NFS mount on the host, it might be better to just directly mount the NFS share on the VM as well.

Interesting project, but...

Mature: Yes, just plug-&-play

Err, the first commit was May 29, 2015, and the project certainly isn't widely deployed.

Keep up the good work though.

i could see this going into docker itself... good job!

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