Re: Migrating VMware instances

Yeah bochs is supposed to be pretty slow, but I was just hoping for any 
level of success in seeing a VM work on OM.

Xen is very cool stuff but due to kernel hooks you can't run it on top of 
OM. What seems to be the current OM project direction is to actually run 
OM on Xen gaining you the ability to use the Xen machine migration 
features on your OM nodes which would provide the process migration.

Dave Pippenger
Email: [email protected]          Phone: 310-980-5733


On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Ketil Malde wrote:

>
>> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
>>> So if anybody has pointers or leads on openMosix inside VMware, I'd like to
>>> hear them too.
>
> I think Dave is trying to do the opposite, ie. run multiple VMs in an
> OM cluster, and not run a virtual OM cluster on multiple VMs.
>
> Dave Pippenger <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> My VMs are all linux, so I'm not tied to VMware if anyone knows of
>> another project that works well with OM. I didn't see any
>> interesting hints that bochs or plex86 would work, and I know due to
>> kernel hooks UML is pretty much not an option.
>
> Bochs is a CPU emulator, isn't it?  So it would probably be horribly
> slow for CPU intensive work.  Did you look at Xen?  It supposedly has
> even less overhead than VMWare , and IIRC, Xen also provides some
> facility to migrate VMs.
>
> -k
> -- 
> If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
>
>


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