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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I have been working quite a lot with VBox, mostly for server stuff. I agree it can be quite impressive, and has some nice features (e.g. do not stop a machine, sleep it - and wake up pretty fast).<BR>
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On the other hand, we found that anything that has to do with disk access is pretty slow, specially when working with a local disk image file.<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
-Alan<BR>
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De: beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org en nom de John Hearns<BR>
Enviat el: dc. 16/09/2009 07:44<BR>
Per a: Beowulf Mailing List<BR>
Tema: Re: [Beowulf] Virtualization in head node ?<BR>
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2009/9/16 Reuti <reuti@staff.uni-marburg.de>:<BR>
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> To operate Sun VirtualBox w/o the graphical interface is possible, and you<BR>
> can also direct the virtual console to any remote machine using "rdesktop"<BR>
> as client on any platform you like.<BR>
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I agree re. Virtualbox - I'm evaluating it for desktop use, not for<BR>
the purpose suggested here,<BR>
and its quite impressive. The latest version offers direct access to<BR>
accelerated 3D graphics on the host. Also I put a virtual machine to<BR>
sleep yesterday when running a CAD style application, and started it<BR>
up later, the application picked itself up mid-stride and continued<BR>
on. Well, maybe I'm easily impressed.<BR>
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