[Quantian-general] Running Openmosix on a 2.6 kernel

[Brown, Dr Nigel]

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ian.org] On Behalf Of M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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Subject: Re: RE : RE: [Quantian-general] Running Openmosix on a 2.6
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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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Hi Ed
In situations (such as mine) where 6 cpu's may be available over
wireless as opposed to one otherwise the balance is probably OK for some
types of tasks.
That consideration aside, my primary interest is as a learning platform
for
 clustering - I guess I could learn by running six virtual machines on
one
 piece of metal but that doesn't seem as inviting.

Horses for courses I guess.

Regards
Nigel



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rabbits fire.


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