> > Sounds suspiciously like the Hercules project... > > > > On Monday 28 January 2002 09:44 am, you wrote: > > > Through my crystal ball I forsee, open-source user space machine- > > > virtualization under linux ... And a pricy z/Series Virtualization-assis > t > > > > There are people doing x86 virtualisation although the main project is not > open source (Vmware). It works suprisingly well for hardware that was never > intended to do the job. UML (user mode Linux) is a Linux running in Linux > basically intended for debug/development - and great for student projects. > Efficiency is somewhat lower than S/390 VM seems to get however 8)
Interesting... Some CPU-intensive work I have done on UML ran as close to full speed as damnit is to swearing (as my late Grandmother used to say). Disk I/O is almost certainly slower; that's probably processor-dependent. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.
