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Date: Wed,  5 May 2010 05:37:49 +0000
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] lguest back again
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On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:58 AM, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
> is lguest the "winning" linux kernel technology of it's category today?

It really depends on what you want. For us, and what we need, lguest wins.

See this paper to see why.
http://bitbucket.org/rminnich/clustermatic/src/tip/EUROSYS10/

But for most other uses, people want full-up virtualization.

For Plan 9, and things like tinycore linux, my favorite is still 9vx

ron