Re: [Devel] Re: swsusp done by migration (was Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5]Virtualization/containers: startup)

From: Vasily Averin
Date: Fri Feb 10 2006 - 01:23:52 EST


Sam Vilain wrote:
> Kyle Moffett wrote:
>> <wishful thinking>
>> I can see another extension to this functionality. With appropriate
>> changes it might also be possible to have a container exist across
>> multiple computers using some cluster code for synchronization and
>> fencing. The outermost container would be the system boot container,
>> and multiple inner containers would use some sort of network-
>> container-aware cluster filesystem to spread multiple vservers across
>> multiple servers, distributing CPU and network load appropriately.
>> </wishful thinking>
>
> Yeah. If you fudged/virtualised /dev/random, the system clock, etc you
> could even have Tandem-style transparent High Availability.
> </more wishful thinking>

Could you please explain, why you want to virtualize /dev/random?

Tnank you,
Vasily Averin

Virtuozzo Linux Kernel Team
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