On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:05:44PM -0500, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > > Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote: > > just wanted to point you all to our project about running multiple > > linuxes on the same machine, as well as migrating them quickly between > > machines: http://www.nomadbios.dk > > Quite interesting. It would be even more interesting to see the source.
Yes, we are working on a public CVS repo, should be up in a few minutes. Check back soon for access details. > The only thing that dampens my enthusiasm for this is the dependency on > L4. I don't mean to debate its merits, but you're really dragging some > else's limitations. Would you be interested to interface with the Adeos > project for future work? We had a number of reasons for choosing L4: - It has recursive address spaces, which we need. - It has fast IPC. - It has a working Linux implementation. - It has OSKit driver and TCP/IP support. Having to deal with multiple tasks for each Linux was extremely complex though, and might be a good reason for choosing a nano-kernel next time. If Adeos gets spaces like Space, then it would be interesting. Otherwise I don't think it is possible, because we need to protect guest OSes against eachother. > Also, I suppose the migration capability requires that both systems have > the exact same hardware and the exact same data on disk (or maybe this > is why you discuss NFS boot on the project's site)? Exactly ;-) Currently only networking is abstracted, but this means that it may run on any hardware, as long as it is supported by oskit. > Karim best, jacob
