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Date:      Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:34:04 -0700
From:      Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel level virtualisation requirements.
Message-ID:  <2849CFD3-A747-4202-B2CB-759D3783C0B2@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <47107996.5090607@elischer.org>
References:  <470E5BFB.4050903@elischer.org> <470FD0DC.5080503@gritton.org> <20071013004539.R1002@10.0.0.1> <47107996.5090607@elischer.org>

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On Oct 13, 2007, at 00:53 , Julian Elischer wrote:
> Generally, you can run several hundred (or more) virtual jail/ 
> vimage style machines. xen/vmware uses so much more resources that  
> you are usually limited to
> so number like 20. it is possible in a virtual networking setup to  
> have a single process
> spanning several virtual environments (for example one process with  
> a socket in each of the child universes).
> It is a valid question, but there is I think a place for both types of
> partitioning.

I'll take anything that can *reliably* allow me to run RELENG_5,6,7  
(and possibly HEAD) on the same (reasonably) beefy machine.  Bonus  
points for being able to do /i386 on /amd64 (or vice versa).

Right now, the only solution that comes even close to doing this is  
vmware on Windows XP.  Bleh.

-aDe




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