Running multiple VM on one image
Stephen Pair
spair at advantive.com
Tue Dec 14 11:07:18 UTC 1999
> > is it possible to run more
> > than one VM on one image (like shared memory between threads or
> > something like this)
>
> Not easily. Maybe with a *lot* of work.
>
> > Is there someone attempting this or something similar?
>
> Yes. I'm trying to put a protection system into a Smalltalk image so that
> multiple users can work on it at the same time. I'm currently (still!)
> stalled in the bowels of the VM on the protection, but have a working
> multi-headed telnet server if you're interested.
>
> - Peter
Can users log in and execute Smalltalk from their telnet session? Neat! It
seems like this multi-user Squeak would require a preemptive scheduler...
- Stephen
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