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

[Sam Vilain]

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>

Actually there is relatively little difference between a NUMA system and
a cluster...

Sam.
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