On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Girish Venkatachalam < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Suresh Kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I am involved in some emulation application. > > > > I am looking for virtualization software (hypervisor - hardware & > software > > emulation) in linux. To emulate 50 nodes(customized linux kernel + my > > network application). > > > > I understand that hypervisor is hardware arch specific. So i will be > using > > intel arch (x86 based arch - latest dual core processor. ). > > I thinking of using xen. > > I have two queries. > > 1) Any other alternate for xen which has very small footprint? > > 2) Is it possible to emulate 50 nodes in latest x86 based desktop/server? > > > > 50 nodes? That is one too many. > > Calculate at the rate of 128MB per instance. > > I always use qemu. > > -Girish > > > -- > G3 Tech > Networking appliance company > web: http://g3tech.in mail: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > I am also having a dual core intel processor. Does your processor support Intel VT? If yes it is better to assume 256 MB per instance and 15% CPU usage per instance (average use case). Then you can calculate the number of nodes you wish to use. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
