[Planetlab-devel] Re: [Planetlab-arch] planetlab - slice migration a possibility?

[Marc E. Fiuczynski]

Hello Swetha and Giri,

Forgot to answer other questions.

 > Also, could you point us to the latest planetlab source code ( is it
 > planetlab-4-0-rc2 as seen on http://build.planet-lab.org/build/ )?

Yes and no.  The latest stable has that tag.  The latest unstable is on 
the head of the various software packages.  You will want to start with 
the build module and just type make, and it will build everything for 
you as a set of RPMs including myplc and myplc-devel.

 > Further do you know what's the status of the PlanetLab over Xen
 > venture?

Ask David Irwin from Duke (cc'd).

 > If that has even an initial release done, then live
 > migration that's supported by Xen could be leveraged for slice
 > migration.

Note that sliver != Xen domain.  Why folks have managed to get a 
PlanetLab node to run within a Xen domain, I am not sure of the status 
of having each sliver be represented as a Xen domain.   Prof. Aki Nakao 
(cc'd) and his students were working on something along these lines, but 
I have not heard anything about this since I saw a presentation last 
December.

Marc