On 25.04.2011 18:00, Zak Perschon wrote:

I've come across what is seemingly a hard cap for the amount of
concurrent VMs I can run on a Linux based machine (after posting on the
support forums, I was directed here). Apparently this same cap was
encountered on a solaris host and a fix was deployed to increase the
amount of VMs that were allowed to run at the same time. Was this fix
supposed to be included in other OS releases? Any information on this
would be greatly appreciated.

That's a rather vague statement, and if you could tell what number of concurrently running VMs you can achieve I might be able to infer what limit is causing trouble for you.

It could be the SysV semaphore count, the number of open files per process, and so on. All these defaults depend on the kernel configuration and/or distribution, so it's hard to generalize.

Solaris is easy compared to that, as it is very uniform compared to Linux.

Klaus


Here is the information on the hardware/VM profiles I am using

Host Machine:
128 Processor Cores (64 dual core Xenon processors [email protected] GHz)
2.0 TB Memory (1.8~ Usable)
1.8 TB RAID 0 (6 x 300GB HDD running at 10k RPM)
16TB SAS

VM Profile
Compiled TinyCore Linux 2.6
Required Memory: 150~MB
Required HDD Space: 50MB

-Zak

_______________________________________________
vbox-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev

Reply via email to