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

[Vasily Averin]

Sam Vilain wrote:
> 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>

Could you please explain, why you want to virtualize /dev/random?

Tnank you,
	Vasily Averin

Virtuozzo Linux Kernel Team