> What struck me when first looking at Xen, long after I had decided > that there was real merit in VMware, was that it allowed migration as > well as checkpoint/restarting of guest OS images with the smallest >... > > The way I see it, we would progress from conventional utilities strung > together with Windows' crappy glue to having a single "profile" > application, itself a virtualiser's guest, which includes any > activities you may find useful online. It sits on the web and follows
I guess I'm a little slow; it's taken me a little while to get my head around this and understand it. Let me see if I've got the right picture. When I "login" I basically look up a previously saved session in much the same way that LISP systems would save a whole environment. Then when I "log off" my session is suspended and saved. Alternatively, I could always log into the same previously saved state. > you around, wherever you go. ... > > Do you not like it? If I understand it, I at least find it interesting. (I think I'd have to try using it before I decided on preference.) I can easily see different saved environments that I use depending on whether I'm at home or at work or wherever. But what happens if I'm not on any network at all? The more I think about it, the more I think this could be handled with the same mechanism that handles better integration of laptops and file servers. > It smacks of Inferno and o/mero on top of a > virtualiser-enhanced Plan 9. Hmmm. It might be pretty easy to whip up a prototype based on Inferno. I must give this some thought... BLS
