I've got an 8-way Intel system with 20GB of memory I've been playing
around with so see if I can virtualize it for some clustering
experiments as well as a general build machine. I've talked to
people individually but I don't think I mentioned anything on the
list. Its not a clandestine effort so I thought I'd pop a quick
status out to the list so people know what's going on. If people
want to see intermediate status notes I'm happy to provide them but
don't want to put out a set of notes that most people send to /dev/
null so comment back if your interested. If there are no responses
indicating interest I'll take silence to mean no real interest, which
is fine.
Right now I'm running SuSE Open Linux 10.2 with the Xen kernel. I've
created a VM with 3G of memory and 2 CPUs (I don't currently have
Intel hyperthreading enabled).
The performance of the VM is a bit sluggish. I had made some
assumptions on the performance based on the box's characteristics (4
3.4Ghz dual core processors with 16MB shared L3 cache). It has 20GB
of PC3200 memory. I think those assumptions may not be valid so I'm
going to step backand get a baseline of native performance and then
layer in the Xen Kernel and finally some VMs. I was hoping to avoid
these steps cause they take time.
In any event, Joe, let's step back. I'm going to move your home dir
from vm01 back to wilbur (everything should still run fine) and
reboot native. Le'ts see where that get's us.
Cheers.
- Virtualization Status on Wilbur Matt Hogstrom
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