vKaOS - Virtual Appliance Platform

vKaOS is a lightweight virtual appliance platform based on KaOS.

Combined with App Modules, vKaOS becomes the Universal Virtual Guest...

 

Carbon Mountain designed vKaOS as a general purpose virtual appliance platform. vKaOS has a specific set of Linux kernel features and drivers, optimized as a KVM virtual guest. The KaOS Hypervisor will combine vKaOS with App Modules to create a Virtual Guest (virtual machine). This drastically reduces the time and cost involved in building, customizing and maintaining virtual guests.  

 

vKaOS is a very flexible platform. The operating system is built into the vKaOS kernel image, and the App Modules are loaded from local virtual disks. The KaOS Hypervisor preconfigures the virtual disks. Each App Module is parititoned using a special software isolation mechanism called chroot. Each App Module contains its own libraries and executibles, eliminating dependency issues, leaving a guaranteed to work image on the system. No software upgrade on one module will impact another.  

vKaOS eliminates the need for system administrators to manage the underlying operating system of Virtual Guests (virtual machines). App Modules provide self-contained Application solutions based on the latest Open Source and Commercial Solutions. App Modules are delivered via the Carbon Mountain AppQueue service. To learn more about AppQueue, click here.