[Nml-wg] ImplementedBy (was: Adaptations)

Jeroen van der Ham vdham at uva.nl
Wed Jun 25 08:39:51 CDT 2008


Freek Dijkstra wrote:
>>> Another point that I was thinking about: what is the cardinality of  
>>> the implementedBy relation? I think it might be *-*, but I'm not sure.
> 
> I'd say 1:*, since one (virtual) node is -I think- typically implemented 
> by a physical node.
> 
> The converse, a set of nodes behaving like a virtual node is handled by 
> the topology concept (formerly known as Graph, formerly know as Network)

I know that Xen and VirtualPC also support a virtual machine that is 
actually implemented on multiple physical machines.
Although Topology could handle that concept, I think that that is not 
entirely appropriate in this case.

Jeroen.


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