[Quantian-general] To ISO or not to ISO?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 5 January 2006 at 18:36, Christopher Heiny wrote:
| On Thursday 05 January 2006 06:23 pm, playing a Disaster Area LP 
| backwards at 45 rpm revealed this message from Dirk Eddelbuettel:
| > I can recommend not burning isos :)  Look at the HOWTOs about booting
| > the iso from disk, or the KNOPPIX files, or use qemu. or vmplayer ...
| 
| Ah, but my cunning plan is to distribute the DVDs throughout the 
| company, and turn PCs into cluster nodes when they're not otherwise in 
| use (nearly 200 potential CPUs, just waiting to be added to our 
| existing 7 CPUs).  The easiest way to do that is just give folks a 
| disk, and say "put this in your drive, and reboot your machine before 
| you go home; then just reboot again when you get back".

All this playing with the VMware Player made me think that the coolest way to
do this would be to solve the openMosix-under-VMware-instance issue (of not
getting migration on default settings, probably tweakable) and then you'd get
Quantian-running-inside-VMware-on-a-Windows-host and they wouldn't even have
to reboot. Wouldn't that rock?  I don't know enough about VMware to see if
that can work.

Dirk

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