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by sys_call 451 days ago
A zone is jargon for a virtual machine guest environment (an homage to Solaris Zones). Styrolite and Edera runs containers inside virtual machine guests for improved isolation and resource management.
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> an homage to Solaris Zones

i asked specifically because the word "zones" reminded me of solaris zones :)

> Styrolite and Edera runs containers inside virtual machine guests for improved isolation and resource management.

do your have your own vmm or is it firecracker with make up and a wig?

How exactly is this an improvement over VMs?
We run unmodified containers in a VM guest environment, so you get the developer ergonomics of containers with the security and hardware controls of a VMM.