On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Steve Philp wrote:
> Jason Antonacci wrote:
> >
> > Is there any linux os flavor (or any os period) that allows the loading of
>multiple kernels? I remember a professor during an SMP discussion stating that a
>"low level SMP kernel" can be used to load "higher OS kernels" onto individual
>processors. This type system would allow os redundancy on a single peice of hardware
>as well as serices. Another plus would be testing and evaluation on an identical
>platform. Some of my associates have suggested Java, but I reject that outright
>because it is not an OS.
> >
>
> The big one that comes to mind is VMWare. It will allow you to run a
> wide variety of operating systems as user processes.
>
> There is a user-space linux kernel floating around that will allow you
> to run more "linux machines" as processes of the real, physical machine.
If anyone knows a URL, it'd be much (s**t, i've forgotten howto spell,
must still be to early) appreciated (yay ispell) :-)
> Beyond that, you're treading into the territory of mainframe
> monsters... I do remember reading that IBM has ported Linux as a
> "virtual machine" to their 390 series and is now working on porting it
> to act as the "main" operating system of the machine.
>
>
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