[cap-talk] Moving running applications

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 27/11/2007, at 0.24, David Hopwood wrote:

>Jed Donnelley wrote:
>> On 11/21/2007 5:18 PM, Norman Hardy wrote:

>
>It isn't strictly necessary for a system to use a pure message
>passing architecture, for it to provide sufficient abstraction from
>underlying devices to support migration. The design will probably be
>cleaner if it does use pure message passing, because otherwise special
>case treatment of particular kinds of device may be required -- but
>many VMM implementations seem to have managed to implement this anyway.

It isn't necessary either to use a VMM to do migration. Look at openMosix,
which can migrate processes from one node to another, and it isn't a VMM,
it is a Linux kernel extension.

val