[robszumski]

The "micoVMs" are Linux containers [1] running within the operating system that is installed on the bare metal.

Since containers start in milliseconds, you gain a tremendous amount of flexibility in what you run on top of these machines. I believe that Pantheon has successfully run ~30k containers (edit: systemd-nspawn, not Docker) on a single machine.

[1] http://www.docker.com/

[lbotos]

I thought they wouldn't want to muddle the waters by saying "microvm" instead of just using the term container. I thought they were using something like Mirage:

http://openmirage.org/

Which, imo, would be more exciting.

[akerl_]

I wouldn't be shocked to see "MicroVM" become the buzzword for "container". Sounds much nicer for putting in marketing material and pitching to non-technical management. That's especially true given that management has been hearing their tech staff talk about VMs for so long.