VMware/VMcluster Stuffo

This material relates to the use of the excellent product by VMware, Inc.. VMware enables one to run virtual machines atop a host (Linux or Windows). We use these virtual machines for testing of cluster related software as well as other random tasks.

The below links provide instruction and suggestion for use of VMware in creating virtual machine clusters, "VMClusters", which are entirely simulated clusters including headnodes and compute nodes. This includes excerpts from presentations as well as notes and other semi-useful material.

Enjoy,
   --tjn

• VMcluster Stuffo -- Basic Instructions for setup and use (slides) [PS]
• "VMcluster" / OSCAR-1.4 -- excerpt from OSCAR Tutorial at SC2002 (slides) [PS]
• VMclusters -- VMware "virtual" clusters (old draft): [PDF]
  
  
• Hack/Fixes:
  • Getting a DHCP Address in a Red Hat Linux 9.0 Virtual Machine: [HTML] [PDF]
  • Red Hat Linux 9.0 Guest Runs Slowly, Gives INIT Errors [HTML] [PDF]
  
  
  
    OSCAR/SSS-OSCAR testing material

  Instructions for use of VMware to do OSCAR testing [VMware-setup-summary.txt]

  Archives of testing machines:

  • RedHat 9.0 machine (stock rh9 + base setup + some VMware fix-ups) [linux-rh9.tar.gz]
  • Virtual compute nodes w/ only a machine definition [linux-node1.tar.gz] [linux-node2.tar.gz]
  • 'dd' image of an OSCAR-2.3 boot floppy (for virtual compute nodes) [oscar-boot-flpy-2.3.img]
  • 'dd' image of an OSCAR-3.0 boot floppy (for virtual compute nodes) [oscar-boot-flpy-3.0.img]