On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Robert G. Brown wrote:
[snip]
> On servers I run Centos or RHEL (licenses and all) as the vendor of the
> software requires. Generally Centos on top, then VMware, then RHEL VMs.
> Works fine. The only bad thing I've seen about Centos in the past is
> the dark s
Passthru's obviously won't usually
work -- if you had an OS from a decade ago that didn't know about USB,
I'd guess that the USB drivers would either not work or would actively
break it. OTOH, you can deconfigure USB passthru.
For what its worth, my current desktop is a 'recycled' XP workstat
If you move an existing VM within the same virtualization and cpu
technology you may be able to get away without reactivation or
obtaining a new license key. MAC addresses can be set in several
virtual environment which can help in some cases.
I get your point here. I deal a lot with licensed I
On 18 Sep 2009, at 1:15 pm, Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Gerry Creager wrote:
I was a dyed-in-the-wool vmware user until quite recently, too,
but the pain of keeping it running on "current" distros (read:
Fedora) finally forced me to look elsewhere. I think you'll be
plea
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Gerry Creager wrote:
I was a dyed-in-the-wool vmware user until quite recently, too, but the
pain of keeping it running on "current" distros (read: Fedora) finally
forced me to look elsewhere. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by
VirtualBox if you give it a shot.
T
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 at 12:01pm, Robert G. Brown wrote
Unless/until Xen or KVM or something else comes out with a similarly
powerful and tricked out console and ease of use and (still, overall)
reliability, VMware will be on my personal laptops for the rest of time.
It
This is drifting off topic but I want to clarify two points:
- I'm not advocating violating any licensing agreement. I am
interested in aspects of environments which interact with license
management code.
- I suspect attempting to move a Windows VM between two different VM
implementations is tro
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Stuart Barkley wrote:
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 at 12:01 -, Robert G. Brown wrote:
XPPro will run forever on the virtualized hardware interface as long
as I can get linux to boot and run devices on the toplevel system.
If I change machines, my XPPro VM can go with me without
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 at 12:01 -, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> XPPro will run forever on the virtualized hardware interface as long
> as I can get linux to boot and run devices on the toplevel system.
> If I change machines, my XPPro VM can go with me without all of the
> tedious crap from Windows U
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 13:04 -0500, David Ramirez wrote:
> Still a newbie in HPC, in the first stages of building a Beowulf
> cluster (8 nodes).
>
> I wonder if anybody out there has used Linux virtual machines in the
> head node, just to be able to experiment with different configurations
> & dep
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 at 12:01pm, Robert G. Brown wrote
Unless/until Xen or KVM or something else comes out with a similarly
powerful and tricked out console and ease of use and (still, overall)
reliability, VMware will be on my personal laptops for the rest of time.
It's just too useful a tool to
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Tim Cutts wrote:
On 15 Sep 2009, at 11:55 pm, Dmitry Zaletnev wrote:
When install CentOS 5.3, you get Xen virtual machine for free, with a nice
interface, and in it, modes with internal network and NAT to outside world
work simultaneously, witch is not the case of Sun xV
On 15 Sep 2009, at 11:55 pm, Dmitry Zaletnev wrote:
When install CentOS 5.3, you get Xen virtual machine for free, with
a nice interface, and in it, modes with internal network and NAT to
outside world work simultaneously, witch is not the case of Sun xVM
VirtualBox. Never used VMWare beca
When install CentOS 5.3, you get Xen virtual machine for free, with a nice
interface, and in it, modes with internal network and NAT to outside world work
simultaneously, witch is not the case of Sun xVM VirtualBox. Never used VMWare
because of its value of $189, people say it's a good VM. But w
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 at 14:04 -, David Ramirez wrote:
> Still a newbie in HPC, in the first stages of building a Beowulf
> cluster (8 nodes).
Also a newbie to HPC, but now accumulating systems very quickly.
> I wonder if anybody out there has used Linux virtual machines in the
> head node, ju
At the RedHat Summit a couple of weeks ago, RH said that with a switch
from Xen to KVM and lots of tuning, they were able to get the I/O
overhead down to 5%. I thought that was pretty impressive. They also
introduced a new product RedHat Enterprise Virtualization, which is
supposed to support pro
On 16 Sep 2009, at 8:23 am, Alan Ward wrote:
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
, specially when working with a local disk image file.
Cheers,
-Alan
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Tema: Re: [Beowulf] Virtualization in head node ?
2009/9/16 Reuti :
> To operate
2009/9/16 Reuti :
> 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 suggest
Am 14.09.2009 um 20:04 schrieb David Ramirez:
Still a newbie in HPC, in the first stages of building a Beowulf
cluster (8 nodes).
I wonder if anybody out there has used Linux virtual machines in
the head node, just to be able to experiment with different
configurations & deployments and j
Still a newbie in HPC, in the first stages of building a Beowulf cluster (8
nodes).
I wonder if anybody out there has used Linux virtual machines in the head
node, just to be able to experiment with different configurations &
deployments and jump back without much effort if things go bad. Consider
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Julien Leduc wrote:
> This last technique ensure reproductible experiments, more performances,
> drawbacks are: more work on the middleware that make all that magic come
> true.
http://workspace.globus.org/vm/index.html
The general idea being that you can request the config
andrew holway a écrit :
> Would this mean that a users environment could never exceed the
> resources of a single node?
you can deploy as many nodes as you want on your cluster with your own
environment, you just reserve the amount of nodes you want to use,
deploy your environment (filling the need
>> I'm interested in utilising the hardware to create something akin to
>> the sun grid or the amazon elastic computing cloud whereby the
>> resources available to the environment are automatically expanded and
>> contracted. Maybe I have the wrong end of the stick on how these
>> services operate
I was thinking of something more dynamic. Consider three large
websites running in separate VM's (or perhaps more likely VPS's) on a
cluster. At any one time the cluster is running at an average of 70%
capacity. One website is European, one is American and one is Indian.
They all have differing pe
Would this mean that a users environment could never exceed the
resources of a single node?
Andy
On 26/07/07, Julien Leduc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm interested in utilising the hardware to create something akin to
>> the sun grid or the amazon elastic computing cloud whereby the
>> reso
Please replace "cloud computing" with "utility computing" they are the
same article on wikipedia but
It seems to me that the current trend is going towards this kind of
setup for people needing server space. Pay per hour, per processor.
If it is to be offered as an alternative to dedicat
It seems to me that the current trend is going towards this kind of
setup for people needing server space. Pay per hour, per processor.
it's an idea popular with certain vendors. and marketing aside,
it makes some sense in some cases. but computers are incredibly cheap!
there is some point whe
interested in finding out about virtualisation on beowulf. The pros
and cons, what software can be used and the limitations of such
software.
virtualization does, inherently, sacrifice some performance. since
beowulf is often motivated by achieving higher performance, this is
somewhat contrad
Hi,
I'm just getting into beowulf so please excuse my ignorance. Im
interested in finding out about virtualisation on beowulf. The pros
and cons, what software can be used and the limitations of such
software.
Can a beowulf cluster be applied to cloud computing? Will it run xen
or vmware or woul
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