[Openmosix-Devel] Fwd: Openmosix suggestion?

[Kamran S. <kam...@gm...>]

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From: Kamran Soomro <kam...@gm...>
Date: Jul 9, 2007 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Openmosix-Devel] Openmosix suggestion?
To: "Pontius, Brian D CIV NAVSISA" <bri...@na...>

Not a bad suggestion. However, the overhead for such an undertaking would b=
e
prohibitive
IMHO.

On 7/9/07, Pontius, Brian D CIV NAVSISA < bri...@na...> wrote:

>  To all,
>
> I am very new to openmosix. I have been reading through the wiki etc=85 a=
nd
> I have an idea that I thought I would suggest to you openmosix experts.
>
> There are obviously some applications that cannot be migrated because the=
y
> are using shared memory or pthreads.  What if we put these applications
> behind a "virtualization layer"?  Here is what I mean.  When using vmware=
,
> you create a virtual machine and it talks to virtual hardware. What if we
> could start these applications and have it talk to virtual hardware
> controlled by openmosix.  The openmosix processes would communicate betwe=
en
> nodes and translate those virtual requests into physical requests giving =
the
> responses back to the originating process.
>
> I am not a developer, just an SA, so if I have considered something that
> impossible, impractical or stupid, please accept my apologizes and help m=
e
> understand.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Thanks
>
> Brian Pontius
> UNIX/Linux System Administrator
> NAVSISA
> US Navy
> bri...@na...
> 717-605-1939
>
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Regards,
Kamran Soomro.

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Regards,
Kamran Soomro.