On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Aditya Godbole <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:34 PM, mihir tailor<[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi PLUG members ! > > One of my friends has recently started classes for teaching C. > > He has a pretty decent rig and now he wants to use that pc > > for setting up a lab for his students to practice C programs on. > > he is on a very tight budget and cannot afford to setup multiple pcs, so > > he know wants to know whether he can use Virtualization on fedora 11 > > and setup multiple systems using KVM. > > > > His Configuration is as follows : > > AMD Athlon 64 x2 64 bit Dual Core Processor @ 2.6 GHz > > 2.00 Gb RAM (1.87 Gb usable due to onboard graphics card.) > > 160Gb Sata Hdd + 80 Gb Pata Hdd. > > Here is an option: > 1. Get hold of some scrapped (old) machines. 16 MB ram would be more > than sufficient. > 2. Install Debian Woody, or some old slackware or RH 7.1. > 3. Connect them via ethernet to his AMD athlon machine. I agree with Aditya. Is your friend sure he needs virtualization ? If all that his students want to do is to develop C programs then, virtualization might be an overkill. In fact, using virtualization for this task defeats the whole purpose of using a multi-user system like Linux! Instead of virtualization, create accounts for the students on the AMD box and, let them work on it remotely using (almost) dumb terminals as already suggested. > 4. Access using SSH or telnet. With 2 GB, he should be able to support > quite a few ssh+vim+gcc+gdb connections. > True. Also, the number would definitely be much more than the number of VMs that can be run. Would at least be twice as much, I conservatively guess. CMIIW... - P http://pranavsbrain.peshwe.com _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
