Subject: Re: [RFC] Virtualization steps
From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:31:01 +1200
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On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 23:28 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Frankly I don't see running 100 VMs as a realistic goal, being able to 
> run Linux, Windows, Solaris and BEOS unmodified in 4-5 VMs would be far 
> more useful.

You misunderstand this approach.  It is not about VMs at all.  Any VM
approach is the "big hammer" of virtualisation; we are more interested
in a big bag of very precise tools to virtualise one subsystem at a
time.

Sam.

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