I have been working quite a lot with VBox, mostly for server stuff. I agree it can be quite impressive, and has some nice features (e.g. do not stop a machine, sleep it - and wake up pretty fast).
On the other hand, we found that anything that has to do with disk access is pretty slow, specially when working with a local disk image file. Cheers, -Alan -----Missatge original----- De: beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org en nom de John Hearns Enviat el: dc. 16/09/2009 07:44 Per a: Beowulf Mailing List Tema: Re: [Beowulf] Virtualization in head node ? 2009/9/16 Reuti <re...@staff.uni-marburg.de>: > To operate Sun VirtualBox w/o the graphical interface is possible, and you > can also direct the virtual console to any remote machine using "rdesktop" > as client on any platform you like. I agree re. Virtualbox - I'm evaluating it for desktop use, not for the purpose suggested here, and its quite impressive. The latest version offers direct access to accelerated 3D graphics on the host. Also I put a virtual machine to sleep yesterday when running a CAD style application, and started it up later, the application picked itself up mid-stride and continued on. Well, maybe I'm easily impressed. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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