[Quantian-general] Running Openmosix on a 2.6 kernel

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 18 January 2007 at 17:16, Denis Mx wrote:
> | If it can be done with Ubuntu, then why not booting
> | Quantian with the 2.6 kernel and then booting Quantian
> | with the 2.4 kernel inside a virtual machine? Is there
> | a problem with this?
>
> That's what I tried when I first got hold hold of VMware Player.
>
> But I found it to not work reliably -- the oM nodes would see each, then they
> wouldn't, then they would, ...  But I didn't spend a lot of time on it. 
>
> Dirk
>   
Reliability considerations aside, isn't the whole point of Quantian and 
clustering *high-performance* computing? A virtual machine in VMware 
Player, VMware Workstation or VMware Server is a *parasite* -- it 
operates as an *application* inside the host operating system. There's 
substantial overhead associated with that, including the fact that only 
some of the installed RAM can be given to the guest VM.


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