Jacob writes: “The NomadBIOS project aims at making operating systems nomadic. It allows you to run several instances of Linux on the same box, and to migrate them almost without downtime between boxes. Recent performance measurements show that it handily beats beats VMWare for execution speed.” A similar project is the UserMode Linux.
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Running Linux on L4 has been doable for quite some time, introducing multi-node capabilities via an additional layer certainly makes this more interesting (unlike other methods which require changes deep deep down in the kernel).
The amount of freely available methods of clustering and virtualizing computers has grown and matured very much over the last months, which is very good news for ISPs
Note that Fiasco also runs on Linux in user-space mode (Fiasco-ux), it’ll be interesting to know whether such a setup is supported by NomadBIOS too.
Amazing. I want to be able to migrate oses all over the place like that.
Note usermode linux isn’t a similar project, however it is possible to accomplish similar stuff with it. Theoreticly this should perform better than uml, since uml isn’t too optimized yet.