{"id":18,"date":"2011-02-16T21:34:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T02:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/?p=18"},"modified":"2011-02-16T21:34:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T02:34:40","slug":"hall-of-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/2011\/02\/hall-of-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"hall of mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, Pratik Gupta (currently responsible for Virtualization Management at IBM) came into my office so I could give him a copy of a VM with some recent interesting IBM software.\u00c2\u00a0As I was demoing the VM, I momentarily got confused about whether I was in the host operating system (the Mac OS X instance running on my MacBook Pro) or the guest operating system (an Ubuntu Linux operating system running inside VMWare Fusion). Pratik then told me about a configuration he was toying around with that involved three or four layers of virtualization and how confusing that could get. He calls it &#8220;the hall of mirrors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It somehow reminded me of the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1375666\/\">Inception<\/a> from last year that deals with dreams and dreams within dreams and dreams within dreams within dreams, and how you can get confused about what &#8220;layer&#8221; you are actually existing in at any given time. It&#8217;s interesting to think about the similarities between a computer environment &#8211; like an operating system, or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Matrix\">The Matrix<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tron_legacy\">The Grid<\/a> &#8211; and a psychological plane of reality like &#8220;the real world&#8221;, a dream, or a dream within a dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, Pratik Gupta (currently responsible for Virtualization Management at IBM) came into my office so I could give him a copy of a VM with some recent interesting IBM software.\u00c2\u00a0As I was demoing the VM, I momentarily got confused &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/2011\/02\/hall-of-mirrors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,20,19,17],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inception","tag-mind-bending","tag-pratik-gupta","tag-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}