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Virtualization

Posted Aug 16, 2007 18:54 UTC (Thu) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
In reply to: Virtualization by vmole
Parent article: Quotes of the week

You've got to stop and think about what you're trying to do.

The whole point of an operating system (at least one of them) is to safely multiplex between multiple processes.

If you're finding you're having to multiplex between different entire OSs to perform that task, your operating system isn't doing its job. You've got it set up entirely wrong.

I'm waiting for people to come up with hyper-hypervisors five years down the line when they find the need for their applications to intercommunicate has left them not trusting their hypervisors enough.

Stop building the turtles.


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Re: Virtualization

Posted Aug 16, 2007 19:22 UTC (Thu) by larryr (guest, #4030) [Link]

Operating Systems are turtles; processes are turtles; MMUs are turtles.

Partitioning the problem space and solution space are features of system design, not bugs.

Larry

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