Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer

Re:Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer by mghfreud on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @05:54PM (#31575417)

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

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Re:Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer by sitkack on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @12:00AM (#31577911)

Yes.

All live migration systems basically follow the same pattern 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.

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Re:Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer by mlyle on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @06:17PM (#31575614)

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.

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Re:Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer by sitkack on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @11:51PM (#31577852)

Is Star Trek's Transporter Actually a Murder Machine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-8zEkIaB0c

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Re:Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer by mghfreud on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @06:23PM (#31575662)

Virtual computer is a bunch of processes.

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Re:Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer by speed_spread on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @06:31PM (#31575727)

And a kernel. And drivers. And devices. And busses. And interrupts.

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Re:Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer by mlyle on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @07:05PM (#31575974)

The word "entire" is in there.

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