Hello!
On Aug 10, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Wolfgang Stief wrote:
> Before I start installing and fiddling around: Are there any reasons
> AGAINST setting up a Lustre playground in a VirtualBox environment? I
> just want to play around w/ recovery and debugging situations and
> upgrades. No performance required at all.
In fact most of lustre developers use virtualized environments for
testing and
whatnot. Some use xen for failover testing since it allows to easily
attach
same "backend storage" to different virtual machines at the same time
when both are running (vmware does not allow that, I am not sure about
vbox).
> Anybody already set up a virtual environment for such a purpose? Any
> "best practice" or something?
Well, it's the same as with non-virtualized machines mostly.
xen seems to work somewhat faster for me and some others since kernel-
level
code is executed somewhat faster.
Bye,
Oleg
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