This may interest kernel enthusiasts in ilug-cal I had been reading through the documentation for Xen Virtualization and how this technology is going to be used by Intel VT and AMD Pacifica processors. A friend of mine who is now in XenSource came recently and gave me a CD with which I experimented with the demo of running a freebsd and debian OS under XEN on the same processor. The technology is complex, specially the way the processor and hypervisor handles the Virtual Memory and common disk resource. But this seems to be the only way the new processors could be marketed by large companies like IBM, HP and Dell to create "on-demand" services. If there are enough enthusiasts in Kolkata and nearby, I would like to create a resource pool that could be shared by all of us. Since XEN supports snapshot, save and restore, it has a capability to relocate a running application with its OS on to another processor. I would like to find out if this could be achieved to the benfit of SMEs who could simply add a few (old) Pentium boxes to migrate applications from a overcrowded 64 bit central server. Appreciate your views. Thanks jpm
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