"Stateless Linux" project

[Seth Nickell]

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 16:27 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:28:14PM -0400, Steve Coleman wrote:
> > Look at the old plex86 if you want to learn about that kind of stuff, 
> > the new one only runs Linux images under Linux as to run more 
> > efficiently without lots of code scanning and op replacements to trap 
> > them as a work around.
> 
> Or Xen. Xen takes a different approach and runs a slightly modified Linux
> (or OpenBSD, or several other things) in what they call "paravirtualization".
> Xen has very very low overhead and also supports mildly insane things like
> moving a running Linux image between two machines without downtime of any
> note

We are actually considering using Xen2 at the moment on the image server
side for running the protosystem images. We've been coodrinating some
with the cluster dudes who are also interested in Xen.

-Seth