Hi Kerry, you may want to read this: http://www.k12ltsp.org/ltsp-om5.html as a starter.
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 12:12 +1200, Kerry Mayes wrote: > Thanks Dave. What I would like to do is join three rather diverse > machines together in a cluster and treat it as one machine that I can > run virtual windoze machines and ltsp clients from. Ideally, I'd then > like to boot additional machines (e.g. work laptop) off a CD or USB > Key to join the cluster and run ltsp or a vm. If you the client to connect to the servers and run a virtual M$ windose machine, then mosix/openmosix may not do what you want. From our experience mosix/open mosix will not migrate a virtual machine. It is possible to add/remove machines from the cluster, the new nodes are automatically given a node number when the mosix service starts. You will need to be aware that when you remove a node from the cluster that if it was not shut down properly, then you will loose all processes that have migrated to that node. > > Key question is whether this would be beyond me. I'm not a guru and > won't have weeks to get it going. > > Subsidiary questions are, > do I need to choose one flavour of linux for all members of the cluster? If you choose different linux distros for the node, mosix will still work, but your programs may not ( missing libraries, different packages, paths ... NOTE this is not starting a distro war). > Is it feasible to expect to add CD bootable machines easily? Yes. cd, memstick, dhcp > > Then there are the implementation issues: > Is there a ready rolled distribution that I could just install on the > dedicated cluster machines or do I install one then add mosix? There was/is a knoppix mosix cluster distro around a few years ago. The above article has links to diskless node booting. Just boot the machine from the cd and it joins the cluster. > > Any help appreciated. > Kerry. > On 11/07/06, Dave van Leeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Kerry, > > I have been running mosix/open mosix for a number of years. What are > > your issues? > > > > Dave Cheers, Dave. -- Dave van Leeuwen Analyst Programmer Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Canterbury New Zealand
