Hello, Sun Microsystems has recently donated a very nice machine to my FOSS project (http://www.officeshots.org). It has four TI UltraSparc IIIi processors and 8 GB RAM. At the moment it is running Debian Lenny with the sparc64-smp kernel.
I want to run multiple virtual machines on it but there aren't many solutions available on sparc64. I found one strange thing though. Debian Lenny ships with SMP and uniprocessor kernels for sparc64, but the vserver enabled kernel is only shipped as uniprocessor, not as an SMP kernel. Here's what I have available according to Aptitude: p linux-image-2.6-sparc64 - Linux 2.6 image on uniprocessor 64-bit UltraSPARC i linux-image-2.6-sparc64-smp - Linux 2.6 image on multiprocessor 64-bit UltraSPARC p linux-image-2.6-vserver-sparc64 - Linux 2.6 image on uniprocessor 64-bit UltraSPARC, Linux-VServer support Why is vserver only shipped as uniprocessor? Also, why are there separate smp and uniprocessor kernels at all for sparc64? I was under the impression that smp_alternatives has made this practice obsolete since Debian Etch, or does smp_alternatives only work on x86 and x86-64? Kind regards, -- Sander Marechal Lone Wolves Foundation http://www.jejik.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
