On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 22:33 -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:28:14PM -0800, Mike Connors wrote: > > > > I once thought about building a bunch of Linux boxes running diff > > distros, networking them together, and then start tinkering with > > all the neat apps and tech. Maybe I should do this and create a > > web page documenting the stuff I've done. > > 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,
I'm guessing 8 GB might be sufficient for 16 virtuals - for one of those "bare metal" servers such as VMware ESXi 4.0. This assumes no heavy RAM intensive apps such as X11. And are there more than 8 distros worth testing on such a box? (what comes to mind: RHEL, Fedora, SLES, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Slackware, Gentoo, maybe Xandros) > 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, Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
