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Date:      Wed, 7 Aug 1996 15:33:31 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" <karl@mcs.com>
To:        p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards)
Cc:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, julian@current1.whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: please comment on this:
Message-ID:  <m0uoFIJ-000IDOC@venus.mcs.com>
In-Reply-To: <573f1z0yvf.fsf@elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Aug 7, 96 08:37:24 pm

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> Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> writes:
> 
> > My goal: "virtual servers" on a grand scale..  to be able to have multiple
> > virtual machines hosted on a single physical machine that appeared to be,
> > from the net, for all intents and purposes separate machines.
> > 
> > It actually worked but I never used it for anything :-/
> 
> I set up a system like this some 12 or so months ago, it's running a
> number of "virtual machines" on a commercial basis at this very moment.
> 
> -- 
>   Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd.  (Netcraft Ltd. contractor)
>   Elsevier Science TIS online journal project.
>   Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk
>   Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155

We have over 450 virtual servers running across 4 massively-hyped Pentia
machines.

On the other hand, there's all kinds of proprietary software extensions
(including kernel stuff) that we have in here to support this, automated and
semi-automated load-balancing, customer control of the virtual partitions,
etc.

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