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From: Dave Marquardt <marquard@austin.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual Machine?
Date: 30 May 1997 09:26:05 -0500
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"stodas" <stodas@mail.cth.com.au> writes:
> Can FreeBSD combine 2 or more machines across a network to act as a single
> virtual machine?

I think you're looking for a single system image, and I'd have to say
I doubt it.  You can make the two systems LOOK very similar by sharing
a password file using NIS and sharing filesystems using NFS, but they
won't do load balancing or any of the things you might want with a
single system image.  And there's the issue of system management
also.  If you have a single system image, you ought to be able to
manage everything on either of the systems (it looks like one system
to you, right?) and just have it magically do all the right stuff.

-Dave