Re: Migrating VMware instances

Dave,

On 5 January 2006 at 14:05, Dave Pippenger wrote:
| I read through the FAQ and came across the entry for VMware that indicated 
| openmosix owuld load balance several instances of VMware. When I tried to 
| do this using vmware-gsx I was faced with the VMware processes being 
| locked on the home node with these flags (monkey, mmap_dev, clone_vm, 
| direct_io). I tried altering the VM config by removing devices like floppy 
| that could have lead to locking, but in the end I was unable to get any 
| level of success.
| 
| I'm running a 2.4.27 based om kernel using the migshm patches. My VMware 
| is somewhat dated being version 3.1.0 but I have seen no indication of a 
| particular version that was better at migration than any other. If anyone 
| who has had positive experience with this could let me know what kind of 
| config they were using it would be of great assistance.

I can't offer much help. I tried something similar recently using the newer
VMware Player, but didn't get the 2.4.27 oM kernel to migrate processes
between the two instances I was running.  I posted a few notes on the
quantian-general list about that.

So if anybody has pointers or leads on openMosix inside VMware, I'd like to
hear them too.

Regards, Dirk

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