[Lust] Whats in your box? Just for fun.

[Kevin Fullerton]

Yeah it is pretty nice.

Bytemark currently use UML (User Mode Linux) for all their VM's
(http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/) but I believe they are currently
investigating Xen (http://www.xensource.com/) for their VM's and they've
just hired a Debian developer (Steve Kemp) who's written a lot of Xen
support tools/scripts so hopefully they'll go that way.

Xen/UML are similar to a lot of other similar technologies out there -
specifically VMWare, plus I believe the IBM big-iron machines have this
built into them, and Sun have something similar called Sun Zones I believe.

Virtualisation is the next big thing out there - a data center with 1000's
of machines running on maybe 1 rack of physical servers.

The Sun's going pretty nice ... I'm thinking about what to do with it at the
moment - I'm thinking a VPN end-point so I can connect to home whilst on the
road, or maybe to track down Sparc specific bugs in Debian packages :)

Cheers!

-----Original Message-----
From: lust-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:lust-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Karl
Sent: 12 June 2006 10:57
To: Luton and St Albans Linux User Group
Subject: RE: [Lust] Whats in your box? Just for fun.

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 08:50 +0100, Kevin Fullerton wrote:
> Hi Karl,
> 
> I've got a Linux VM (not a dedicated host) with Bytemark - once it's 
> setup through the Admin shell you can SSH into it, or if you like you 
> can run X via VNC (you can't run X locally on the machine though)
nice, I've been reading up on AIX stuff (for work), you can setup one
machine with it and run about 10 machines in a vm, LPAR keeps popping up
too, I think it splits the processor up or something, supposed to be the d's
b's but I need to read more.
> You can get dedicated hosts from them, which you boot initially from a 
> Knoppix image I believe and then you can install whatever distribution 
> you like.
over ssh? niceee.
> sunny:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> cpu             : TI UltraSparc IIi (Sabre)
> fpu             : UltraSparc IIi integrated FPU
> promlib         : Version 3 Revision 25
> prom            : 3.25.2
> type            : sun4u
> ncpus probed    : 1
> ncpus active    : 1
> D$ parity tl1   : 0
> I$ parity tl1   : 0
> Cpu0Bogo        : 798.72
> Cpu0ClkTck      : 0000000017d78400
> MMU Type        : Spitfire
> 
> sunny:~# uname -a
> Linux sunny 2.6.16-2-sparc64 #2 Mon May 22 15:02:37 PDT 2006 sparc64 
> GNU/Linux
> 
> sunny:~# w
>  08:47:03 up 17:32,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
> kfullert pts/0    gateway.home.sho Sun16    0.00s  0.11s  0.13s sshd:
> kfullert [priv]
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Kevin
sparco! I destroyed a ultra10 once, never tried linux on anything but
x86 though...

Karl.