Paper reading homework

In preparation for lecture, first sections 1-3 of Blending Containers and Virtual Machines: a study of Firecracker and gVisor (2020). This paper discusses some of the advantages and trade-offs in Firecracker and gVisor, and compares them to LXC, which is more-or-less the baseline plan of relying on the host Linux OS kernel for isolation. Later sections go into more detailed comparisons that aren't as important to read.

Submit your answer in an ASCII text file named homework.txt to the corresponding "Lecture N" assignment on Gradescope.

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