Yes, excactly... I could imagine 1 physical computer with a huge amount of
memory, running ie 20 virtual machines. Thinking of ASP, this would be a
cool thing, because of much less footprint, and easier administration
(rebooting a machine, is just killing a process i the underlying system).
Another cool thin about Virtual machines, is the much more efficient ussage
of the CPU. All VM's will probably not need the CPU at the same time. I
mean, if you buy A PIII, how much advantage will you have of the CPU,
running only a single server? This is going to be a great thing for
ISP/hosting and ASP/hosting...
I'm really looking forward to this...
Btw. Will it be possible to use plex86, whithout running X? I would prefer
to be able to start up a Virtual machine using a remote connection, watch it
boot up, and then disconnect, knowing that the machine is still running.
Then I can connect to the VM and control it using network. Kinda freaky
wish... but hey... I can use of it :)
Regards Morten Lund
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey B. Siegal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 2:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How many VM-levels is possible?
"Kevin P. Lawton" wrote:
> Other than for academic reasons, what kinds of uses are
> there for recursive VMs anyways? Maybe for VM debugging.
If VMs can be made sufficiently secure, you could give a user his own VM
as a playground when you don't want him to be able to access the rest of
your system. That user might want to use a VM to run another operating
system, etc.
