article Project Photon FAQ in Photon OS Documents

Project Photon FAQ

ericnipro — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:16:17 GMT

Frequently Asked Questions

Re: Project Photon FAQ

ChrisSears — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:14:17 GMT

The link to the Photon microsite in the FAQ (here and in the PDF) is broken: http://vmware.com/Photon

Re: Project Photon FAQ

ericnipro — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:43:51 GMT

Thanks, I fixed it. I believe we have this document open to edit, so anyone can add/fix things. Please feel free to add FAQ questions/answers to this document!

Thx

-eric

Re: Project Photon FAQ

ericnipro — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 04:10:26 GMT

With my older Mac Pro Intel Core i5 2.4 GHz, with a pretty slow drive, I see 34 seconds for install time on Micro. That's pretty good.

Re: Project Photon FAQ

lamw — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 15:42:25 GMT

Eric,

I think we should probably just point to this existing Photon FAQ Frequently Asked Questions · vmware/photon Wiki · GitHub which is being actively maintained instead of creating a separate one.

Re: Project Photon FAQ

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 00:04:33 GMT

Q. What is Project Photon? A. Project Photon is an open source, Linux container host runtime optimized for VMware vSphere®. Project Photon is extensible, lightweight, and supports the most common container formats including Docker, Rocket and Garden. Project Photon includes a small footprint, yum-compatible, package-based lifecycle management system, and can support an rpm-ostree image-based system versioning. When used with development tools and environments such as VMware Fusion®, VMware Workstation™, HashiCorp (Vagrant and Atlas) and a production runtime environment (vSphere, VMware vCloud® Air™), Plex App Lucky Patcher App Kodi App Project Photon allows seamless migration of containers-based Apps from development to production.