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[Thierry Carrez <thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lorin Hochstein wrote:
> We didn't have this use case in mind when we did our initial implementation of heterogeneous instance types, but it's an interesting idea and should be pretty straightforward to implement (says the guy at ISI who probably contributed the least amount of code to the heterogeneous implementation...).  Is there community interest in this type of functionality?

>From my (limited) point of view, there is a lot of value for a provider
to being able to offer a choice between container-type "light" VMs
(through LXC) and virtualized-type "full" VMs (through KVM), in the same
cloud.

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Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Release Manager, OpenStack