From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 7 13:33:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA06319 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA06304 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:33:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from venus.mcs.com (root@Venus.mcs.com [192.160.127.92]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id PAA15418; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 15:33:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: by venus.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5) id ; Wed, 7 Aug 96 15:33 CDT Message-Id: Subject: Re: please comment on this: To: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 15:33:31 -0500 (CDT) From: "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, julian@current1.whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <573f1z0yvf.fsf@elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Aug 7, 96 08:37:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Joe Greco writes: > > > My goal: "virtual servers" on a grand scale.. to be able to have multiple > > virtual machines hosted on a single physical machine that appeared to be, > > from the net, for all intents and purposes separate machines. > > > > It actually worked but I never used it for anything :-/ > > I set up a system like this some 12 or so months ago, it's running a > number of "virtual machines" on a commercial basis at this very moment. > > -- > Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) > Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. > Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk > Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155 We have over 450 virtual servers running across 4 massively-hyped Pentia machines. On the other hand, there's all kinds of proprietary software extensions (including kernel stuff) that we have in here to support this, automated and semi-automated load-balancing, customer control of the virtual partitions, etc. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1 from $600 monthly; speeds to DS-3 available | 23 Chicagoland Prefixes, 13 ISDN, much more Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1] | Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | Home of Chicago's only FULL Clarinet feed!