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On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Rick Buford wrote:
> Well, virtualization under Xen or VMware requires a host as well. It's
> something of the same chicken & egg question you deal with when it comes to
> load balancing. i.e., what good are all those redundant servers behind a
> single [point of failure] load balancer?
>
> At some point, most systems have at least one single point of failure, even if
> it's the NIC or patch cable.
Or the user. :)
The Itanium architecture does soething interesting where you never
really directly touch the hardware. Everything is done through PROM
(SAL and PAL in Itanium speak). It seems that this would be extesible
for your purpose.
--dlloyd
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