[geeks] Re: kernel scalability....

[Ken Hansen]

Even if you deploy VMWare, it still is all slogging through the one kernel,
so the partitoning is not really useful (IMHO)

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 2:30 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Re: kernel scalability....


> Even if linux on s/390 bare metal could do the same performance wise as it
> on VM, linux still wouldn't be able to partition the system in any
> meaningfull way, which to me is the whole point of a mainframe.
>
> I haven't heard of any projects to add such partitioning to linux, except
> that new versions of VMWare can be used to add some partitioning.



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