From 920e4f536986c8ed7d5dfb5c49ec2f9906a02077 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jonatan=20P=C3=A5lsson?= Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 10:14:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Changed 2.6 to mention state salvaging --- report.lyx | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/report.lyx b/report.lyx index 7e75354..3a10bbb 100644 --- a/report.lyx +++ b/report.lyx @@ -2414,8 +2414,10 @@ One important factor of any server is the availability. \begin_layout Standard There are several good papers on how to migrate whole virtual machines among nodes to replicate them but for the GGS a different approach has been chosen. - Instead of just duplicating a virtual machine, the programming language - Erlang has been used which offers several features to increase the availability. + Instead of duplicating a virtual machine, an attempt to lift the state + of the VM to a storage external to the VM is made. + The state is stored in a fast, fault tolerant data store instead of inside + the VM. Some of them are \emph on hot code replacement