"Stateless Linux" project

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue Sep 14 20:27:34 UTC 2004


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
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