ZeroVM – Hyperscale Cloud Infrastructure

Ha.<p>I wrote about a ZeroVM-on-Docker thing I was working[1] on in another thread just before this story showed up.<p>Note that ZeroVM <i>isn&#x27;t</i> a conventional VM at all. All your software needs recompiling for it, and it is entirely deterministic (with all the positive and negative aspects of that).<p>For one set of use-cases this is very useful. I was looking at using it to run untrusted user-submitted, and potentially hostile code when a Docker container isn&#x27;t sufficient on its own.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107151" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8107151</a>

Can anyone more familiar with ZeroVM point out what&#x27;s new?<p>Previous submissions&#x2F;discussions:<p>Two years ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746222" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3746222</a><p>About a year ago, acquisition by Rackspace: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6588566" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6588566</a>

I&#x27;m glad this exists. I wanted to do something similar, when I first heard about Native Client.

<a href="http://docs.zerovm.org/clitools.html#zvsh-and-zvapp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.zerovm.org&#x2F;clitools.html#zvsh-and-zvapp</a> The link to the docs are broken for zvsh and zvapp

That&#x27;s a big constant performance hit to take, even at scale. However, this would be great for a) untrusted code and b) another level of portability for writing c programs.

Ah! This was a TechStars Cloud^H^H^H Rackspace company that got bought by Rackspace.