Re: Virtual machines in an OpenSSI-cluster?

Robert Brockway <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cluster.ssic.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Robert Wachinger wrote:

> did anybody play with some virtualisation product (VMware, Xen, whatever
> ...) to run some guest-OS anywhere in the cluster?
>
> I would think of two scenarios:
> - run a virtual machine on any node in the cluster (maybe including
>  migration to another node)
> - use of the ressources of many different cluster nodes from within the
>  virtual machine (e.g. CD-Roms, USB-Ports etc. on any node ...)
>
> Anybody ever thought of this?

I had considered this.  I'm not so sure it will be really useful for me 
but it is an interesting idea.  The virtualisation technologies I use are 
Qemu & VServer.  Not sure how well the latter would cope with migration 
:)

Cheers,

Rob

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Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: [email protected]
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