On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 08:42:17AM -0400, Joe Landman wrote: > Honestly this never made a great deal of sense to me. Rather than > clustering VPSes, why not cluster bare metal JEOS kvm hypervisor built > machines? Not quite VMware stuff. We are using lots of kvm (obscene > amounts of it) in our projects across several OSes. Linux, > Illumos/SmartOS. We've been tweaking tiburon to handle such kvm boots, > so that turning on a very large cluster of virtual machines and having > them ready would take seconds to minutes at worst. Not half hours to > several hours for provisioning.
Not sure I plugged this here before: http://erlangonxen.org/ It's proprietary so far, but such solutions can be replicated in the FLOSS domain. > VPS doesn't quite have the isolation of kvm, which is part of why I'd > like to see that. But kvm doesn't have great PCIe pass through (yet, > its getting better). VPS might be able to make better use of the resource. _______________________________________________ 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
