Michael Neumann <mneumann <at> ntecs.de> writes: > > Am Dienstag, den 05.10.2010, 17:11 +0000 schrieb Pratyush: > Another great application of vkernels could be for laptops. Imagine your > laptop runs on DragonFly, and your host kernel is running a X11 display > server, while all your X11 clients run inside the vkernel. This enables > you to checkpoint the vkernel, shut down the laptop, and to later > restore where you left off (assuming X11 doesn't keep state on the > X11-server). > > I also think that vkernel checkpointing is a great feature for virtual > hosting. Especially combined with swapcache, one could run a huge number > of vkernels on a single machine, giving each enough main memory, backed > by a SSD. Whether it performs well is another question :) > > Regards, > > Michael > >
Cool, the ideas you have stated will help in long run. I too was thinking sameabout live migration but the one using X11 on a vkernel will give us a new direction :) Pratyush
