Re: [CentOS] Sharing RAM between VM

2009-04-16 Thread Larry
> Depends what your goal is, if you want to run a cluster with shared > memory between systems, you typically need a very high speed interconnect > and very low latencies, your not likely to achieve this within VMs. > > Your original message just talked about sharing ram between VMs, you > didn't

Re: [CentOS] Sharing RAM between VM

2009-04-16 Thread Larry
> AFAIK, openvz can do that. Of course, openvz has its own problems, but > that's another matter. Haven't heard of openvz, till now. Thanks, I'll look at it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Sharing RAM between VM

2009-04-15 Thread luc...@lastdot.org
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Larry wrote: > Hi, all! > I have a server with 4 virtual machines ( using xen). Is there a way to > make them share RAM? I found out something about balloons, but it didn't > distribute RAM dynamically. So I decided that xen can't achieve that. > I tried luci and r

Re: [CentOS] Sharing RAM between VM

2009-04-15 Thread nate
Larry wrote: > Thank you, for all your answers! > > What about the other question? Can clustering help in completing this > task? I thought cluster nodes are sharing RAM on default ( obviously I > was wrong). Depends what your goal is, if you want to run a cluster with shared memory between system

Re: [CentOS] Sharing RAM between VM

2009-04-15 Thread Larry
Thank you, for all your answers! What about the other question? Can clustering help in completing this task? I thought cluster nodes are sharing RAM on default ( obviously I was wrong). >From your answers I'm getting to think that best decision for this task, in my case, is to buy some RAM. I'm n

Re: [CentOS] Sharing RAM between VM

2009-04-14 Thread nate
John R Pierce wrote: > Jim Wildman wrote: >> 'over commit' of RAM is the phrase you are probably looking for. And >> this is one of the limitations of Xen (it doesn't). >> > > perhaps I am being naive here, but I'd guess that a hypervisor which > allowed such would have to have its own page swappi

Re: [CentOS] Sharing RAM between VM

2009-04-14 Thread John R Pierce
Jim Wildman wrote: > 'over commit' of RAM is the phrase you are probably looking for. And > this is one of the limitations of Xen (it doesn't). > perhaps I am being naive here, but I'd guess that a hypervisor which allowed such would have to have its own page swapping mechanism, as it needs

Re: [CentOS] Sharing RAM between VM

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Wildman
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Larry wrote: > Hi, all! > I have a server with 4 virtual machines ( using xen). Is there a way to > make them share RAM? I found out something about balloons, but it didn't > distribute RAM dynamically. So I decided that xen can't achieve that. > I tried luci and ricci and now

Re: [CentOS] Sharing RAM between VM

2009-04-14 Thread nate
Larry wrote: > Hi, all! > I have a server with 4 virtual machines ( using xen). Is there a way to > make them share RAM? I found out something about balloons, but it didn't Not with the current Xen I don't believe. I think some bleeding edge versions of KVM support memory sharing and/or ballooning

[CentOS] Sharing RAM between VM

2009-04-14 Thread Larry
Hi, all! I have a server with 4 virtual machines ( using xen). Is there a way to make them share RAM? I found out something about balloons, but it didn't distribute RAM dynamically. So I decided that xen can't achieve that. I tried luci and ricci and now all my VMs are in a cluster. But I don't th