Plan 9 itself makes a great platfrom on which to construct
virtualisation.
I don't know what Inferno is but the phrase 'virtual machine' appears
somewhere in the product description. Isn't Inferno the 'it' you're
searching for?
--On Friday, April 17, 2009 6:48 AM +0200 lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote:
One can indirectly (and more consistently) limit the number of
allocated resources in this fashion (indeed, the number of open file
descriptors) by determining the amount of memory consumed by that
resource as proportional to the size of the resource. If I as a user
have 64,000 allocations of type Foo, and struct Foo is 64 bytes, then
I hold 1,000 Foos.
And by this, I clearly mean 64,000 bytes of allocated Foos.
From purely a spectator's perspective, I believe that if one needs to
add considerable complexity to Plan 9 in the form of user-based kernel
resource management, one may as well look carefully at the option of
adding self-virtualisation to the Plan 9 kernel and manage resources
in the virtualisation layer.
Plan 9 has provided a wide range of sophisticated, yet simple
techniques to solve a wide range of computer/system problems, but I'm
of the opinion that it missed virtualisation as one of these
techniques. I may be dreaming, but I've long been of the opinion that
Plan 9 itself makes a great platfrom on which to construct
virtualisation.
++L
