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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:47:52 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject: Re: [9fans] security questions
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> I don't know what Inferno is but the phrase 'virtual machine' appears
> somewhere in the product description. Isn't Inferno the 'it' you're
> searching for?

No, Inferno resembles - very superficially, as you will discover if
you study the literature - a JAVA interpreter surrounded by its own
operating system.  There are so many clever things about Inferno, it
is hard to do it justice.  But it is not a virtualiser.  More's the
pity, of course.  A virtualiser with Inferno's good features would be
a very useful device.

Actually, I have long had a feeling that there is a convergence of
VNC, Drawterm, Inferno and the many virtualising tools (VMware, Xen,
Lguest, etc.), but it's one of these intuition things that I cannot
turn into anything concrete.

++L