Before you think of being a do-gooder...

[Christopher Browne]

On 5/29/06, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Imagine if you could have the hypervisor start a special game OS just to
> run your games, and then if the game screws up, you just kill of that
> partition, but your main OS and applications are not affected.  That
> would be neat.  Not sure if it will happen, but I do think
> virtualization support in the hardware gives some interesting
> posibilities.

This isn't a "feature"; this is a "mitigation of a problem."  If your
game didn't interact badly with your OS, then this wouldn't be
necessary.

> For developers it can be very useful to be able to boot a seperate
> system while debuging something, without having to have a seperate
> machine to do it on, while keeping your development environment up.

s/For developers/For kernel or X server developers/

The big wins that come from separation of roles can assortedly be
gained from such things as:

a) Having a database backend with a "test" database and a "production" database;

b) Depending on the fact that processes clean up after themselves;

c) chroot / jail functionality...

> Software as a service on the other hand, I see less potential in.
> People don't like having to continuously spend money on things.  They
> complain enough about gas and insurance as it is.  If they had to keep
> paying to use their car too, well that would be kind of like leasing...
> Never mind.  Maybe people are that crazy after all. :)

... As soon as you stop paying for the service, your documents all go
away, which helps solve the "proliferation of information" problem...
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