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[atlas] Turris Omnia as probe Platform?
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Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Sat Dec 5 02:59:50 CET 2015
> I think there is no lack of "interesting platforms to host a VM", but > the point of the discussion was "virtualizing measurements leads to > unreliable results as you do not control the hardware well enough" - and > for that reason, I'd strongly discourage *any* sort of VM solution. i strongly agree that vms risk reducing the precision of results. i am less sure this makes them useless or dangerous if clearly marked, as in probe version, perhaps. heck, if i want precision below ~15ms, i would be leery of v1 and v2 probes. otoh, nlring is mostly virtual and has its uses. but probes are so small and sufficiently cheap that i question the utility of maintaining a vm-based infrastructure. ymmv. randy, a researcher who uses atlas data, sometimes for timing sometimes not
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