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by mlyle 1483 days ago
No. VM migration moves entire virtual computers. Forking makes a copy of a process with the current state; this moves that single duplicated process to a different machine.
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sitkack 1483 days ago
Is Star Trek's Transporter Actually a Murder Machine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-8zEkIaB0c
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mghfreud 1483 days ago
Virtual computer is a bunch of processes.
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speed_spread 1483 days ago
And a kernel. And drivers. And devices. And busses. And interrupts.
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mlyle 1483 days ago
The word "entire" is in there.
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