On May 31, 1:45 am, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > Craig, > > You mentioned that you can open a remote desktop connection from a > virtualized computer to a real computer (or even the one running the > virtualization). > > This, as Quentin mentioned, requires an interface. In this case it is > provided by the virtual network card made available to the virtual OS.
A 'virtual network card' is just a name for the part of OS. There is no interface. The 'real computer' is no more real than the virtual computer. The partition is purely fictional - a presentation layer to appeal to our sense of organization and convenience. No virtual network card is required. You could just call it the part of the OS that we call virtual. The partition between the OS and the actual hardware however, does require an interface for our hands and eyes to make changes to the hardware that affects the software. > When the virtual OS writes network traffic to this virtual interface, it is > read by the host computer, and from there on can be interpreted and > processed. It is only because the host computer is monitoring the state of > this virtual network card and forwarding its traffic that the virtual OS is > able to send any network traffic outside it. No, the containers all share the same root OS. The virtual interface is a convenient fiction. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
