From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@9fans.net Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:01:38 -0500 From: blstuart@bellsouth.net In-Reply-To: <59f266c17d1134e9ff074e179680a4f7@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] VMs, etc. (was: Re: security questions) Topicbox-Message-UUID: e470ac08-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > What struck me when first looking at Xen, long after I had decided > that there was real merit in VMware, was that it allowed migration as > well as checkpoint/restarting of guest OS images with the smallest >... > > The way I see it, we would progress from conventional utilities strung > together with Windows' crappy glue to having a single "profile" > application, itself a virtualiser's guest, which includes any > activities you may find useful online. It sits on the web and follows I guess I'm a little slow; it's taken me a little while to get my head around this and understand it. Let me see if I've got the right picture. When I "login" I basically look up a previously saved session in much the same way that LISP systems would save a whole environment. Then when I "log off" my session is suspended and saved. Alternatively, I could always log into the same previously saved state. > you around, wherever you go. ... > > Do you not like it? If I understand it, I at least find it interesting. (I think I'd have to try using it before I decided on preference.) I can easily see different saved environments that I use depending on whether I'm at home or at work or wherever. But what happens if I'm not on any network at all? The more I think about it, the more I think this could be handled with the same mechanism that handles better integration of laptops and file servers. > It smacks of Inferno and o/mero on top of a > virtualiser-enhanced Plan 9. Hmmm. It might be pretty easy to whip up a prototype based on Inferno. I must give this some thought... BLS