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English term or phrase:
extend an operating system image
English answer:
make available (virtual) copies of the operating system
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always servers:
"And finally, use of Intel based virtual machines, such as VMWare or Microsoft’s Connectrix, can reduce the number of physical servers, but ***extend an operating system image to each developer***, from the BladeCenter.
what are they doing?? are they creating an image of an operating system for each developer????
always servers:
"And finally, use of Intel based virtual machines, such as VMWare or Microsoft’s Connectrix, can reduce the number of physical servers, but ***extend an operating system image to each developer***, from the BladeCenter.
what are they doing?? are they creating an image of an operating system for each developer????
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| 3 +1 | make available (virtual) copies of the operating system, one to each developer |
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| 5 +1 | see comment. |
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| 5 | some references |
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make available (virtual) copies of the operating system, one to each developer
I think this is what they mean: for a software developer, it is a big advantage to have an environment to him/herself, unsullied by the activities of others. That makes it easier to develop and to debug -- you know that if something goes wrong, it is something you have done, not someone else on the same system.
But giving every one a complete private environment in hardware is expensive -- in this example, it means a physical server for every developer. Much more sensible to modify the underlying system so that there are multiple copies, "images" as they are called here, of the operating system. This is common, and has been for years, on large computer systems, but unfamiliar to people weaned only on Microsoft Windows.
But giving every one a complete private environment in hardware is expensive -- in this example, it means a physical server for every developer. Much more sensible to modify the underlying system so that there are multiple copies, "images" as they are called here, of the operating system. This is common, and has been for years, on large computer systems, but unfamiliar to people weaned only on Microsoft Windows.
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Microsoft Windows Embedded Studio Development Tools for Windows XP ...
... applications, deploy a runtime operating system image for an ... visit the Microsoft Windows Embedded Developer Center. ... They can extend the functionality by adding ...
msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/ dnxpesp1/html/xpeoverview.asp
Sun Expected to Unveil Long-Awaited Cluster Management Tools
... Developer News December 4, 2000 Sun Expected to Unveil Long-Awaited Cluster ... hook together hundreds of nodes all managed from a single operating system image. ...
news.earthweb.com/dev-news/article.php/525911 -
[PDF] From Operating Systems to Cooperative Operating Environments
... They extend the application and functional range of UNIX to address the ... This allows to unify a collection of computers into a single operating system image. ...
www.jaluna.com/developer/papers/CS-TR-92-82.pdf
... applications, deploy a runtime operating system image for an ... visit the Microsoft Windows Embedded Developer Center. ... They can extend the functionality by adding ...
msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/ dnxpesp1/html/xpeoverview.asp
Sun Expected to Unveil Long-Awaited Cluster Management Tools
... Developer News December 4, 2000 Sun Expected to Unveil Long-Awaited Cluster ... hook together hundreds of nodes all managed from a single operating system image. ...
news.earthweb.com/dev-news/article.php/525911 -
[PDF] From Operating Systems to Cooperative Operating Environments
... They extend the application and functional range of UNIX to address the ... This allows to unify a collection of computers into a single operating system image. ...
www.jaluna.com/developer/papers/CS-TR-92-82.pdf
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A copy of the O.S. gets loaded, on-demand, on the client machine. This copy, though running on a CPU different from its native machine, emulates the native CPU architecture around which it was built.
So, it is possible to run Windows on a z/OS (which in turn is running on an IBM proprietary CPU), or a windows xp on a linux machine. The user gets the entire look-and-feel of the guest OS, though the actual nuts-and-bolts work is still getting carried out by the underlying OS.
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So, it is possible to run Windows on a z/OS (which in turn is running on an IBM proprietary CPU), or a windows xp on a linux machine. The user gets the entire look-and-feel of the guest OS, though the actual nuts-and-bolts work is still getting carried out by the underlying OS.
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Sanjay.
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