On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Victor Vasilchenko <vvasilche...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good day, > > is it possible to run VirtualBox on the cluster (SSI - single-system image) > with the only purpose - to create a single virtual machine with all > available CPUs(cores) and memory ? > > Example: > the set of 4 PCs (CoreQuad + 8GB RAM) forms a Linux cluster with 16 cores > and 32GB memory. > Would it be possible to run VirtualBox on this cluster - that is to run it > parallelized on all 4 cluster nodes (16 cores), > the result would be a VirtualPC with 15Cores and 30GB Memory (-1 for host > itself). > > Just imagine that any OS installed inside this virtual machine will see 15 > cores and 31GB memory ! > > And all the current modern programs will fully utilize it's power (simply > multithreading - no need to redesign for MPI support): > > 1) 3D studios (Maya, Max) will run on 15 threads > 2) Video transcoding software will use 15 threads > 3) make -j 15 > 4) etc.... > > the only question here is whether VirtualBox can be run on cluster in > parallelized manner, but not on just one node of it. > > Did you have any experiments for it or may be have any ideas? >
Can you run a single OS kernel on your cluster to see all cores ? I think not, unless you have custom motherboard which runs into millions of dollars. Besides this is a user's question, so please discuss there... not on devel list. -- -"Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
