On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Mike Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > Keith Lofstrom wrote: >> With decently fast hardware, you don't need a bunch of boxes - you >> can do this with virtual machines, just like the Big Kids that >> develop distros. I think it would be way cool to build a host >> with virtualized guests for every major distro out there. It >> might need a terabit of RAM, but that would be cheaper and lower >> power than all the separate boxes. At very least, you could >> load perhaps 16 virtuals at a time, and smoke test software >> in a lot of different distros automagically. > True. I wasn't implying they would all be physical. Maybe a few physical > boxes with a > handful of VMs on ea. What's really nice about VM Ware is their community > contributed > appliances. I don't think Virtual Box supports this. Also, with VM Ware you > can have > comparable physical networking functionality between VM's with Cisco's dist. > virt switch > or Vyatta.
You can do it all on Linux with KVM, libvirt and virt-manager without vmware. While you are at it setup a NAS box serving up iSCSI for the storage. http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
