On Jul 28, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Aaron Mulder wrote:
On 7/28/06, Jason Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why not use Xen ( http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/Xen )?
Because I understand that it's sensitive to the host OS and I don't
want to fool with it.
Mmmkay :-P Well maybe we will have to set Xen up on GBuild west and
see which is better ;-)
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.
No, was going to use VMware Server. It's now final and free.
Doh, I did not realize they were giving it away for free.
If I thought it was going to be possible to have multiple TCKs running
simultaneously, I would, but that seems to be such a massive
undertaking that I'm not willing to do it myself. Do you think it's
easier than I'm speculating?
How hard could it be? Change some port numbers... run from a
different directory?
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%.
I've had pretty good experience with VMware Server. Very low overhead
and no limits like you're describing. It did seem that a database
server suffered a little, but it was still quite usable, and I don't
think the TCK does major disk access like that.
Aight, fair enough. I'm interested to see how well it performs.
--jason
Thanks,
Aaron
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
