VM images for Locustworld

First thing I should apologies for this blog as it was written in the middle of night and at the time I thought it was brilliant, now I reread it, what the hell was I thinking. I’ll let you decide.

The basis of the ideas is to get Locustworld off dedicated computers and start running them under VMware. Now this is not the brilliant part but because of the small storage and frame it would make a wonderful VMware image. As you know I use Locustworld OS to run my wireless mesh network. The opportunity is to have Locustworld software imbedded into applications. You know like Wireless Mesh 2.0.

But first a little history, my first experience with Locustworld was booting off a CD and having it run on a ram disk. Now VMware is not your daddy’s RAMdisk. I thought that this setup was brilliant in the fact that you could operate it from any machine; however, this wasn’t case. The RAMdisk did not perform well and I’m not sure anyone used it.

VMware with Locustworld would be great for a number of reasons. The first is to have less equipment especially for uplink nodes. Having Locustworld embedded into various network applications and other application would not only be truly great it would also have QOS write to the application server. This was brilliant part. I know, I know I will work on my idea a little more.

So what does this all mean? Well imagine you have a small town and let’s call it Smalltown. And in this town we have say a town of savy Computer people. Now the town has been around for about 100 years and the infrastructure is dated, especially telecommunication, TV, etc. So the town people got together and said lets invest into a wireless mesh network, and they did (could this be Bigtown MUNI mesh?) They put wireless nodes up and were able to put uplink nodes everywhere. Smalltown people were very happy. They could get access to internet from every part of the town.

Now Smalltown people where very wise and ensure that they had all security setup and people also had bandwidth controls. But the demand for bandwidth was growing. The problem was not the wireless mesh network but the uplink nodes acting as funnels to the internet. Smalltown people want to act like the Bigtown people so they bought more bandwidth and soon they realized that they two were like Bigtown people with Bigtown problems. They had all the problem of Bigtown web 2.0.

Now the Smalltown people thought they can too setup some services like Bigtown web 2.0 people by providing some local services. New services like VoIP (telephony) started and Smalltown Telephone Company started. Then a new company start IPTV too started to provide services with in Smalltown Mesh. Then some of the town people started to build their own web commerce site and too have mesh access. But the town did not have many resources. The Smalltown had PC’s and they access wireless mesh cloud. They wanted more bandwidth for their little wireless mesh.

But the Smalltown couldn’t afford to put in more wireless nodes. So they ask for people to donate their old computers to build up the network and have more channels available to use. Smalltown were savvy people and never junked their old computers. They used them to play Pong with. So they thought if they all could share a bit of their computer resources with everyone that the can setup a virtual network. Well let’s call it VMware Network. They could use there machines as next layer of network having more paths and bandwidth. Now Smalltown had the same problem like Bigtown in which many different operating systems and hardware where used. So they used VMplayers in each machine and setup a new mesh cloud.

So if you can imagine that PC’s could run Locustworld in VMware that a whole new type of network could start from existing equipment. Secondary Mesh network not only within the immediate premise like a personal area network (PAN) but extended to other neighbors as well.

So you can have a PAN with in your home or business connecting to main wireless mesh. That means person application can be hosted with in the town. This distributed model is very different from what we have today. Most hosting companies have 7 by 24 total redundant systems. Even if a mini host facility was added to this system the VMware using Locustworld could be brought in for QOS.

Could the VMware Locustworld be the next wind farm for the farmers (PBS special on co-op wind farms and the benefit to the agricultural community?)

Sorry this is where the ideal or dream became a little weird. Hmm, VMware for Locustworld? I think it time for something like this to happen. It could be Wireless Mesh 2.0