From: Martin Harriss <martin@Princeton.EDU>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Xen for Windows(Was:vmware 5.0)
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 09:40:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4311BED5.6030807@Princeton.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ea6a210ff3a1dccd1ba45e51fe924f2@coraid.com>
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
Martin
Brantley Coile wrote:
> i too am both curious as to the motivations for VM and completely open
> minded with no preconceived notions about VM. except my aversion to
> hype. but hype is independent from the quality of an idea.
>
> i was asking Friday here at work, what are the modivations behind VM?
> the only answers that were offered were variations on the ability to
> rent someone a machine that has root access without having as many
> machines are renters. the earliest VM i know of is VM/CMS, from IBM,
> which is still used today. its purpose was to provide early
> timesharing, and was also used to debug MVS. so those are two
> motivation, although Xen can't be used for debugging OSes since it's a
> paravirtual machine. i don't think VMware would be too good either
> because it rewrites parts of your code. maybe that's not a problem in
> practice.
>
> maybe Ron can give us insight into the motivations for using VM.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-28 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-16 3:07 [9fans] vmware 5.0 Tim Newsham
2005-08-21 20:17 ` Russ Cox
2005-08-23 8:30 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-08-23 17:44 ` Gorka guardiola
2005-08-23 17:54 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-08-23 18:55 ` Steve Simon
2005-08-23 19:07 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-08-23 19:28 ` Scott Stout
2005-08-23 19:38 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-08-23 19:26 ` Gorka guardiola
2005-08-23 12:34 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-08-23 20:25 ` Gorka guardiola
2005-08-24 12:07 ` Francisco Ballesteros
2005-08-24 15:34 ` LiteStar numnums
2005-08-23 19:48 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2005-08-23 19:54 ` [9fans] procreate vs threadcreate? rattan
2005-08-23 19:58 ` Brantley Coile
2005-08-23 20:00 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-08-23 20:02 ` Russ Cox
2005-08-25 2:41 ` [9fans] vmware 5.0 Martin C. Atkins
2005-08-25 4:38 ` Tim Newsham
2005-08-27 9:53 ` Vester Thacker
2005-08-27 10:01 ` Vester Thacker
2005-08-27 12:35 ` Jun OKAJIMA
2005-08-27 14:01 ` [9fans] Xen for Windows(Was:vmware 5.0) Jun OKAJIMA
2005-08-27 15:47 ` kokamoto
2005-08-27 17:33 ` Steve Simon
2005-08-28 1:22 ` kokamoto
2005-08-28 12:04 ` Brantley Coile
2005-08-28 12:40 ` lucio
2005-08-28 14:24 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-08-28 13:40 ` Martin Harriss [this message]
2005-08-28 14:25 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-08-28 16:27 ` kokamoto
2005-08-28 16:43 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-08-28 14:19 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-08-28 18:18 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2005-08-29 0:06 ` Brantley Coile
2005-08-31 15:01 ` Gorka guardiola
2005-08-31 17:19 ` McLone
2005-09-01 3:59 ` [9fans] ndis-ulator for plan 9 Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-01 7:31 ` Dave Lukes
2005-09-01 7:39 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-09-01 8:08 ` balaji
2005-09-01 15:03 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-01 15:34 ` McLone
2005-09-01 15:40 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-02 16:02 ` Dave Lukes
2005-09-03 11:41 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-03 15:20 ` lucio
2005-09-03 15:21 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-03 15:40 ` Russ Cox
2005-09-04 15:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-05 5:42 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-06 4:16 ` David Leimbach
2005-09-01 16:28 ` Dave Lukes
2005-09-01 19:35 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-01 21:30 ` Devon O'Dell
2005-09-03 17:34 ` Jack Johnson
2005-09-21 18:35 ` Dave Lukes
2005-09-21 18:46 ` Uriel
2005-09-21 19:14 ` Russ Cox
2005-09-21 19:33 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-21 19:36 ` David Leimbach
2005-09-21 20:04 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-21 22:51 ` David Leimbach
2005-09-21 23:05 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-22 1:26 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-09-22 2:40 ` David Leimbach
2005-09-22 7:58 ` Nigel Roles
2005-09-22 13:50 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-22 14:17 ` David Leimbach
2005-09-22 14:20 ` Charles Forsyth
[not found] ` <d49d18945f1d149f28a9290e6ad56f6c@terzarima.net>
2005-09-22 14:40 ` David Leimbach
2005-09-22 14:56 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-22 15:01 ` David Leimbach
2005-09-22 22:53 ` George Michaelson
2005-09-23 9:06 ` Nigel Roles
2005-09-23 7:13 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
[not found] ` <ac600c5a0c06881fc8bf6b5828b8a36b@terzarima.net>
2005-09-22 2:39 ` David Leimbach
2005-09-22 3:47 ` Russ Cox
2005-09-21 19:25 ` Dave Lukes
2005-08-31 17:52 ` [9fans] Xen for Windows(Was:vmware 5.0) Martin C. Atkins
2005-09-01 0:21 ` Brantley Coile
2005-09-01 3:23 ` Tim Newsham
2005-09-01 16:34 ` Harri Haataja
2005-08-28 14:07 ` Ronald G Minnich
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