[Quantian-general] VMware clusters

[Ben Goodrich]

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Hi Dirk and everyone,

- From the fun facts with VMware department, apparently it is an open
secret that VMware can imitate an Intel e1000 network card (see
http://sanbarrow.com/vmx.html or the end of
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=26561&tstart=0).

The implication of this is that if you put this line:

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

into your .vmx file, then VMware will pretend it has this generic Intel
network card, which is included among the cards that the OpenMosix
Terminalserver will support, whereas the standard VMware network card is
an AMD Am79c970A, which I believe is not terminalserver-eligible.

So, you can create a virtual machine cluster within your own computer,
which is probably not so useful unless you are just debugging something,
or you can create a (somewhat performance-hampered) virtual machine
cluster across computers without rebooting them out of Windows as long
as all the computers have VMware (especially the free-as-in-beer VMware
Server, which went 1.0 a few days ago).

All this appears to work with "bridged" networking and not (yet?) with
NAT. But it is probably smarter to set up one of those virtual network
things, which I haven't exactly figured out yet.

Ben

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