Re: Migrating VMware instances
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.cluster.openmosix.general |
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On 12 January 2006 at 14:35, Moshe Bar wrote:
| Yes, that would work, Dirk. But what would the benefit of that be?
| openMosix is used for HPC applications, and VMware eats about 25-45%
| of the CPU's cycles.
Testing, primarily. I have seen it work somewhat with the VMware Player --
openmosixview essentially show some external machines flicker on and off
under load. Probably tuneable.
| I think it would make much more sense with Xen, since Xen can also
| relocate running virtual machines. It also provides transparent
| checkpointing which is kind of nice for HPC.
Yes, but no Xen in Knoppix and Quantian yet ...
Dirk
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