From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3ac349265f93863eacd12e0c031756da@hera.eonet.ne.jp> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Xen for Windows(Was:vmware 5.0) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 01:27:08 +0900 From: kokamoto@hera.eonet.ne.jp In-Reply-To: <4311C955.8040509@lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-htjmbwojgcprkdmznzpdrbrlhp" Topicbox-Message-UUID: 80a44544-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-htjmbwojgcprkdmznzpdrbrlhp Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm not an expert of this. However, I think I know the motivation of IBM's VM attempt. Because they decided their main job as "ON DEMAND" business. To do this, they need such a frexible mechanism to offer various on demand, on line business. However, this is Plan 9 community. Is their anyone trying to make on demand business? =E2=98=BA By the way, anyone Plan 9ers here is invlolved in the development=20 of DeepMail? Kenji --upas-htjmbwojgcprkdmznzpdrbrlhp Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <9fans-bounces+kokamoto=hera.eonet.ne.jp@cse.psu.edu> Delivered-To: kokamoto@hera.eonet.ne.jp Received: (qmail 5559 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2005 23:25:55 +0900 Received: from unknown (HELO AA0000-MIMS14s.eo.k-opti.ad.jp) by aa0000-mdcs17d3 with SMTP; 28 Aug 2005 23:25:55 +0900 Received: (qmail 11039 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2005 23:25:54 +0900 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.cse.psu.edu) (130.203.4.6) by aa0000-mims14s with SMTP; 28 Aug 2005 23:25:54 +0900 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 31791C77DD for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:25:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id AAD45C677F for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:25:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (psuvax1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18039-01-14 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:25:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (mailwasher.lanl.gov [192.65.95.54]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 80C31C6798 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:25:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ccs-mail.lanl.gov (ccs-mail.lanl.gov [128.165.4.126]) by mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (8.12.11/8.12.11/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id j7SEPVBt026816 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:25:31 -0600 Received: from [192.168.0.101] (vpn-client-40.lanl.gov [128.165.253.40]) by ccs-mail.lanl.gov (8.12.11/8.12.11/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id j7SEPTip016266 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:25:30 -0600 Message-ID: <4311C955.8040509@lanl.gov> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:25:25 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Xen for Windows(Was:vmware 5.0) References: <8ea6a210ff3a1dccd1ba45e51fe924f2@coraid.com> <4311BED5.6030807@Princeton.EDU> In-Reply-To: <4311BED5.6030807@Princeton.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 4.7.1.128075 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: 9fans-bounces+kokamoto=hera.eonet.ne.jp@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-bounces+kokamoto=hera.eonet.ne.jp@cse.psu.edu Martin Harriss wrote: > See the following paper (by a colleague) for more than you wanted to > know about the development of VM. It was, in the beginning, a skunk > works project. > > http://pucc.Princeton.EDU/~melinda/25paper.pdf Great paper, also details the "go closed source" decision in 1982, which I doubt IBM would do today. ron --upas-htjmbwojgcprkdmznzpdrbrlhp--