On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Morten Lund wrote:
> 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 :)
Sure, we talked about returning resources to the host when
the VM session isn't doing much productive. Sounds like
the email archive isn't updating well though. :^(
Anyways, should be doable.
As far as disconnect/connecting to a particular VM, sure
why not. As long as the user input (keyboard/mouse) stuff
is well abstracted, this should be doable. One use
for this... it would be cool if you had a tech issue
and you wanted to hand over the VM to a tech support
person so they could actually try running programs in
your VM to solve a problem.
-Kevin
