Re: Migrating VMware instances

Yes, that would work, Dirk. But what would the benefit of that be?  
openMosix is used for HPC applications, and VMware eats about 25-45%  
of the CPU's cycles.

I think it would make much more sense with Xen, since Xen can also  
relocate running virtual machines. It also provides transparent  
checkpointing which is kind of nice for HPC.



Moshe



On Jan 12, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>
> 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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