Re: openMosix vs KVM, Xen,...et al
"Wes Wagner" <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:38:58 -0700
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--===============1899417832== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_100251_5250503.1187973538865" ------=_Part_100251_5250503.1187973538865 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline openMosicks.... Experiense the Sensation of Devirtualisation No z's allowed... On 8/24/07, g4sra <g4sra-/[email protected]> wrote: > > David Brodbeck wrote: > > > > On Aug 24, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Tony Travis wrote: > > > >> g4sra wrote: > >>> I have bit my tongue long enough. openMosix never did have, does not, > >>> (and as far as I can predict the future) ever will, have anything to > do > >>> with Virtualization (even though that may have been the original > >>> motivation). > >> > >> Hmm... [donning my best flame-proof underpants] I thought openMosix was > >> actually the inverse of 'virtualisation'? > > > > I was going to say that, too. Virtualization usually means making one > > machine look like a bunch of smaller machines, so you can run multiple > > operating systems or isolate different applications from each other. > > OpenMosix tries to make a bunch of small machines look like one big > > one. It certainly doesn't provide isolation; one rogue program can > > (and sometimes does) bring down the whole cluster. > > > Both hit the nail on the head, what openMosix obviously needs is it's > own buzzword that means "inverse of virtualisation" (much prefer the > English spelling, but then I would :>). Suggestions to the mailing > list..... > > How about "Invualisation" :>) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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Experiense the Sensation of Devirtualisation<br><br>No z's allowed...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">g4sra</b> <<a href="mailto:g4sra-/[email protected]">g4sra-/[email protected] </a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">David Brodbeck wrote:<br>><br>> On Aug 24, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Tony Travis wrote: <br>><br>>> g4sra wrote:<br>>>> I have bit my tongue long enough. openMosix never did have, does not,<br>>>> (and as far as I can predict the future) ever will, have anything to do<br>>>> with Virtualization (even though that may have been the original <br>>>> motivation).<br>>><br>>> Hmm... [donning my best flame-proof underpants] I thought openMosix was<br>>> actually the inverse of 'virtualisation'?<br>><br>> I was going to say that, too. Virtualization usually means making one <br>> machine look like a bunch of smaller machines, so you can run multiple<br>> operating systems or isolate different applications from each other.<br>> OpenMosix tries to make a bunch of small machines look like one big <br>> one. It certainly doesn't provide isolation; one rogue program can<br>> (and sometimes does) bring down the whole cluster.<br>><br>Both hit the nail on the head, what openMosix obviously needs is it's <br>own buzzword that means "inverse of virtualisation" (much prefer the<br>English spelling, but then I would :>). Suggestions to the mailing list.....<br><br>How about "Invualisation" :>)<br><br> <br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc.<br>Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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