Hi all, Sun has donated a server to my FOSS project (www.officeshots.org). It has an UltraSparc IIIi processor and 8 GB of RAM. Below is the output of /proc/cpuinfo:
cpu : TI UltraSparc IIIi (Jalapeno) fpu : UltraSparc IIIi integrated FPU prom : OBP 4.22.19 2006/09/06 23:41 type : sun4u ncpus probed : 4 ncpus active : 4 D$ parity tl1 : 0 I$ parity tl1 : 0 Cpu0ClkTck : 000000005ee3fe00 Cpu1ClkTck : 000000005ee3fe00 Cpu2ClkTck : 000000005ee3fe00 Cpu3ClkTck : 000000005ee3fe00 MMU Type : Cheetah+ State: CPU0: online CPU1: online CPU2: online CPU3: online I have two questions about how to best use this machine. First off, do I need an SMP kernel for this machine? cpuinfo only lists a single processor, but it does mention "CPU0-3 online". Wikipedia says that this processor is single-threaded. My second question is what technology I can best use to run virtual machines on this server. Many options are not available (like Xen or VirtualBox) because they are for x86 only. Others like QEMU and Linux-vserver are available but I don't know how well they would perform. I've heared that QEMU is quite slow unless you use the KQEMU kernel module and it looks like that's not available in sparc64. The second question is also related to the first. At the moment this machine runs Debian Lenny sparc64-smp. Aptitude has both SMP and non-SMP kernels available but all the vserver enabled kernels are non-SMP. Aptitude show sparc64, sparc64-smp and sparc64-vserver kernels but no sparc64-smp-vserver kernel. Any advice is greatly appreciated. -- Sander Marechal Lone Wolves Foundation http://www.jejik.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
