Why not use Xen ( http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/Xen )?
If you just plan to use VMWare workstation, then chances are you are
going to be wasting a bunch of cycles. Would be better to just run
multiple instances of Geronimo.
I've had really bad luck with VMWare in the past so I am a bit jaded
to using it. Previously we had a big box running ESX, and a few
virtual machines on it. We setup our main build/ci server as one of
them... and it was so slow.... the vm had 100% utilization, but the
host was only at like 20%.
--jason
On Jul 28, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Aaron Mulder wrote:
I'm interested in setting up VMware Server on my GBuild boxes, since
my understanding is that the TCK is pretty single-threaded and we
ought to get better utilization out of the (dual-CPU) machines if we
ran the host plus one VM or just two VMs (and forget about the host)
on each box.
It sounds like memory might be the constraining feature -- my boxes
have 1.5, 2, and 4 GB respectively and I wonder whether splitting the
smaller ones in half would leave enough RAM for the TCK to run. Would
512 or 768 be enough?
The other question is IPs. I only have 3 IPs. Is there any way for
me to put all the boxes/VMs behind a NAT and have them share 1 IP with
various port forwards, or do they really need to each have a public
IP?
Thanks,
Aaron
