[Info-vax] Ksplice equivalent for VMS ?

Waldek Hebisch antispam at fricas.org
Fri Feb 21 07:48:54 EST 2025


Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:05:35 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>> * cluster with node A and B
>> * critical process P that for whatever reason does not work
>>    running concurrent on multiple nodes runs on A
>> * node A needs to be taken down for some reason
>> * so VMS on node A and B does some magic and migrate P from A to B
>>    transparent to users (obviously require a cluster IP address or load
>>    balancer)
> 
> Linux virtualization migrates entire VMs that way, rather than individual 
> processes.

Migrating whole VM will also migrate _current_ kernel.  The whole
point of orignal question is updating kernel.

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                              Waldek Hebisch


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