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Hi All,

Anyone know where multicore (SMP) processor support is scheduled on the time line? (I really need the extra performance.) 2.0.1?

Many thanks,
-T

Hello again Tod. Don't hold your breath on this one. It is quite difficult to do. It they don't get the reentrancy 100% correct then the VMM can crater and I would imaging that they should be very wary about introducing more instability just at the moment I would imagine its pretty low on their priorities: at the earliest 2.1 which is a year away.

But the team keep everything totally close to their chests, so I might be wrong.

Hi Terry,

I am just being greedy here. I want the power so I can run Windows Servers as a guest on a Linux platform.

I have several Windows servers out there and they are such pieces of crap. You spend thousands of dollars on backup software that just can not back everything up -- locks, system lock and other Windows file system abominations. On the one that crashed, I could only restore the data. Had to reinstall Windows. And, no journaling file system. And, And, you have to reboot them every night or they get really, really weird.

When DVD writing destroyed my Linux file system, twice, (see http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3002), I was able to restore "everything" in under two hours. (I left "restore" running and went to customer sites.)

With Windows server running as a guest under, I can

1) have Journaling
2) backup everything up and do perfect restores
3) tame the ugly windows memory management
4) have tons of control over the system

I will get off my soap box now.

-T