> > Is there any other way without using the NFS, like something that I can do > > with the VM or the OS to make these partitions visible to the other images. > > As long as you don't write to the disk, yes (and you need to make sure the > systems are similar enough in that they have the same uid/gid number, etc). > Because each Linux image will cache portions of the disk in memory it will > not see all changes to the disk consistently, so writing while others read is > out of the question. Multiple writers is even worse. > And then there's the issue of what you can share from a function point. It > would work for the html pages served by Apache on all systems, but I'm > not sure if you could share programs between distributions, for example.
Sharing programs between them is generally no problem provided that their requirements (interpreters such as Perl, shared libraries etc) are met. Programs that have builtin ideas about where their components are will fail if their expectations are not met; gcc, perl and exmh are candidates (I suspect they're okay) as is dhcpd which I suspect will fail. Of course, software you build yourself you can coerce into shape. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.
