Another good thing about VMs is that you can migrate them to another server
if you want to service the one that they are running on...
Thanks,
Lucho
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 08:04:34AM -0400, Brantley Coile said:
> i too am both curious as to the motivations for VM and completely open
> minded with no preconceived notions about VM. except my aversion to
> hype. but hype is independent from the quality of an idea.
>
> i was asking Friday here at work, what are the modivations behind VM?
> the only answers that were offered were variations on the ability to
> rent someone a machine that has root access without having as many
> machines are renters. the earliest VM i know of is VM/CMS, from IBM,
> which is still used today. its purpose was to provide early
> timesharing, and was also used to debug MVS. so those are two
> motivation, although Xen can't be used for debugging OSes since it's a
> paravirtual machine. i don't think VMware would be too good either
> because it rewrites parts of your code. maybe that's not a problem in
> practice.
>
> maybe Ron can give us insight into the motivations for using VM.
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [9fans] Xen for Windows(Was:vmware 5.0)
> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:22:55 +0900
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Last night I must have been too sleepy. I can't read my own
> posting this morning.☺ Then, I'll try once more.
>
> > if you just want to run only Plan9.
>
> Actually, I never understand such kind of attempts.
> What is the merit to use mutiple OSs on a machine?
> >From a bad humor sense, I can realize it only for saving
> power...
>
> Once, I thought it'd be nice if I could use Xen for Linux and Plan 9
> web server to use UTF-8 encoded our page. However, I realized
> it not so essential after that. Now, I'm thinking like this: if I need
> Windows, let's have a machine for it. If I need Plan 9 let's have
> three machine for it, etc. Machines are cheeper these days,
> so it must be only for saving power for mother earth.☺
>
> Better?
>
> I'm not offending the one machine model for Plan 9 from the
> view point of more convenience to more people. However, I think
> Geoff's effort should be payed more attention by more Plan 9ers.
>
> Ken ji
