[Gllug] Constrained virtual machines

[Karanbir Singh]

Richard Huxton wrote:
> James Roberts wrote:
>> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>> does vmware-server ( also, like vmware-player, free to download and 
>>> use ) not meet your requirement ?
>>
>> I think he has got that already. He wants fine-grained cpu and other 
>> resource control for testing. vmware-server only offers very crude cpu 
>> control (1 processor, 2 processors...) although the memory allocated 
>> can be fine-grained.
> 
> Yeah - what I'd like to be able to do is have a virtual-machine limited 
> to e.g. the speed of a 1GHz P4 with 512MB RAM and something that looks 
> like a single IDE disk. And then change all those parameters on the next 
> test run. And it needs to be *all* of them, otherwise the tests will be 
> unbalanced.
> 

you are not going to get such exact throttling controls anywhere ( that 
i am aware of ), but your closest match is going to be Xen.

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