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Re: experimental dashboard is opened

 

Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:

1) A headless machine with reasonable hardware (~2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo,
supporting VT-x, e.g. Wolfdale, 2x250 SATA HDDs, 4-8 Gb of RAM, 2 NICs)
VT-x is a must only for non-native xen domains (e.g. windows). For linux and bsd its usually better to use domU nodes,
3) Reliable Internet connection
I`m able to help with this.
Then we simply set up CentOS 5 x86_64 as a privileged administrative
domain (dom0)
I would recommend Debian for this task. CentOS (RHEL) is too conservative and contain to old software ;)
and a number of minimal installations (w/o X.Org and
stuff, only complete dev tools, reasonable userland stuff and ssh) as
domU for the other OSes (Linux, BSD, XP), both i386 and x86_64 using
BSD is very unreliable in XEN environment.
hardware vitalization. OSes will run at near native speed in terms of
CPU,
Only in XEN domU domains.
I/O will be quite slow, but this is not really a concern.
sure.
The management can be done using XEN's embedded VNC server (for
Windows-inclined: read Radmin) for each OS and SSH tunnels for Unix-like
systems.

I think that ~512 Mb RAM would be more then enough for each of those, so
4 Gb gives us 8 OSes to test upon.

For linuxes you may limit menory to 256, it will more than enough in x-less configuration
I don't have prior experience with XEN, but I have been administrating
~5 CentOS boxes for the past few years, and it's a very admin-friendly
distribution that comes with lots of prepackaged and pre-configured
stuff, so I can somehow help to set things up in my spare time...

I have many XEN installations around, i`m using it mostly for VoIP related tasks (asterisk hosting, etc.), so i am able to help with this.




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