From: Colin Walters Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 19:20:44 +0000 (-0500) Subject: docs/introduction: Note VMs vs baremetal X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/2022.1-3+rpi1~1^2~4^2~54^2~41 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7ace5d35bd8b9d4d407b725518497df425376573;p=ostree.git docs/introduction: Note VMs vs baremetal --- diff --git a/docs/manual/introduction.md b/docs/manual/introduction.md index b0d47390..b9c69c21 100644 --- a/docs/manual/introduction.md +++ b/docs/manual/introduction.md @@ -79,6 +79,13 @@ filesystem that supports hard links. Note: OSTree will transparently take advantage of some BTRFS features if deployed on it. +OSTree is orthogonal to virtualization mechanisms like AMIs and qcow2 +images, though it's most useful though if you plan to update stateful +VMs in-place, rather than generating new images. + +In practice, users of "bare metal" configurations will find the OSTree +model most useful. + ## Atomic transitions between parallel-installable read-only filesystem trees Another deeply fundamental difference between both package