On 12/13/06, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. But timing and performance are primarily hardware issues > not flavor-of-linux issues. Vmware would *only* be used to > provide access to a range of Linux disributions for build testing > (and this could already be set up on sage.math). For performance > testing VMware wouldn't be used.
I've had limited, but extremely positive experiences with VMWare (keep in mind it's free-as-in-beer now). It's easy to set up each image with a dedicated IP on a private subnet and have a user-accessible startup script that does something like: start_vmware_$OSFLAVOR sleep($BOOT_TIME) ssh $VIRTUAL_IP sage_test ssh $VIRTUAL_IP sudo shutdown This way, using a big machine with fast disks, 4 or more cores and gobs of RAM will give you an always-on build/test farm that can do multi-OS tests far more conveniently than anything else out there. I can't speak for Xen (never used it, I'm sure it's good too), but I'm a MAJOR fan of virtualization technologies these days. They really cut a lot of pain out of many common problems, and they beat dual booting by a million miles (unless you need direct OpenGL or other such hardware access, which is not the case here). Cheers, f --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
