From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3DC85A8A.CE119F27@domain.hid> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 18:55:54 -0500 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@domain.hid MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Adeos-main] Re: RTOS over Adeos document References: <20021105232456.62569.qmail@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: adeos-main-admin@domain.hid Errors-To: adeos-main-admin@domain.hid List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Girish Wadhwani Cc: adeos-main@gna.org Girish Wadhwani wrote: > Wouldn't this severly limit what Adeos could be used > for? > The hardware will have to scale with the no. of OSes > in > use. It would be too expenive to use it for > allpications like hosting, etc. If you need to share a machine for hosting, then your best bet is to use Jacques Gelinas' virtual servers: http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc This is actually already used by a few hosting companies and it is much better adapted to this job than anything Adeos can do. > The only resources > that are shared are the cpu and memory making it not > that beneficial to be running multiple OSes. I, for one, really like to idea of having 2 completely separate OSes each running with their separate hardware linked using a RAM-based virtual Ethernet. I don't like the idea of having to make special modifications to block device drivers and I don't like the idea of having layers of block requests (a-la VMWare). This doesn't mean other folks can't find those things of some use. But from my perspective, nanokernels are better off really being "nano" ... Karim =================================================== Karim Yaghmour karim@domain.hid Embedded and Real-Time Linux Expert ===================================================