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isn’t this exactly what the vm migration in cloud is?

• mlyle 4y ago
  No. VM migration moves entire virtual computers. Forking makes a copy of a process with the current state; this moves that single duplicated process to a different machine.
  • mghfreud 4y ago
    Virtual computer is a bunch of processes.
    • speed_spread 4y ago
      And a kernel. And drivers. And devices. And busses. And interrupts.
    • mlyle 4y ago
      The word "entire" is in there.
  • sitkack 4y ago
    Is Star Trek's Transporter Actually a Murder Machine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-8zEkIaB0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-8zEkIaB0c
• sitkack 4y ago
  Yes. All live migration systems basically follow the same pattern https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/live-migration https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/live-migrati... And as others have mentioned upthread, Mosix was an extension to Linux that also implemented fork() in such a way that the child could be local or remote with file handles retained across the cluster. We had a Linux lan party when I was in college and managed to scrape together a Mosix cluster across a bunch of machines. Ignore the uncreative pedants.