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Virtualized Linux Faster Than Native?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the too-specialized-to-count dept.

^switch writes "Aussies at NICTA have developed a para-virtualized Linux called Wombat that they claim outperforms native Linux. From the article: 'The L4 Microkernel works with its own open source operating system Iguana, which is specifically designed as a base for use in embedded systems.'" Specific performance results are also available from the NICTA website.

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  1. Curious warning on the website by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Warning

    Running a virtual Iguana OS from within a virtualised Linux environment is dangerous.
    ETROS and NICTA will not be held responsible for any resulting time paradoxes.


    hmmmm

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    1. Re:Curious warning on the website by Rorian · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well thats the answer to the better-than-native performance then. It simply creates a hole in the space-time continuum, off-loads all processing work to the infinite monkies with infinite abacuses, and reports 0.0 cpu load to the benchmark program.

      Obvious really.

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    2. Re:Curious warning on the website by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny
      "The other day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven ... I almost went back in time." -- Steven Wright

      Important safety tip, thanks Egon.

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  2. Re:This makes me wonder... by bazorg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you think that's air you're breathing now?

  3. KLAATU... VERATA... by dsginter · · Score: 4, Funny

    NICTA... necktie...

    Definitely an n-word.

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  4. A new form of energy by waif69 · · Score: 3, Funny

    If one were to use 33 levels of virtualization on the ARM processor, the efficiency is so great that power may be removed and the system runs on its own efficiency. Yeah! We don't need oil anymore.

  5. Time to cue up some U2 by pmbuko · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even better than the real thing....

    1. Re:Time to cue up some U2 by datafr0g · · Score: 3, Funny

      This virtualized Linux moves in mysterious ways, but I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

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  6. Re:This makes me wonder... ?? by electr01nik · · Score: 3, Funny
    Yes it does make me wonder..... Running virtualized Linux on virtualized Linux hosted by Linux.... Now that seems to be just a bit overkill does it not....

    Yeah but...imagine a Beowulf cluster of them!

  7. The more microkernels the better? by mikael · · Score: 3, Funny

    ^switch writes "Aussies at NICTA have developed a para-virtualized Linux called Wombat that they claim outperforms native Linux.

    So if a para-virtualised microkernel runs a para-virtualised microkernel running Linux, then there should be an even greater speedup?

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  8. Welcome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I for one welcome our new Fast Address-Space Switching overlords!

  9. Re:This makes me wonder... by Hitch · · Score: 4, Funny

    so...it's actually *penguins* all the way down?

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  10. Re:Informative? Only to those w/o senses of humor. by Ryan+Amos · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please.

    A low slashdot id just means you've been heaping shit on the pile longer than anyone else.