RE: Migrating VMware instances

Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cluster.openmosix.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12 January 2006 at 13:44, Moshe Bar wrote:
| I would think it's next to impossible to migrate vmware instances simply
| because of Vmware's architecture. Vmware scans the exucutable VM pages =
| of
| the virtual machine ahead of execution and replaces call to ring 0 of =
| the
| CPU with system calls and pointers to it's own software. I doubt if a =
| Vmware
| machine would be able to run on the remote node after migration.=20

Any thoughts on my recent question on having vmware run a 'guest' of linux
with oM and participate in an existing oM cluster at the 'host' linux level?
In other words, can instances of vmware containing sessions that migrate?

Dirk

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