On Wednesday 20 April 2005 11:26, Gordon Russell wrote: > I dont really know how many people would be interested, but I have set > up a cluster > of free-access user-mode-linux machines. To use one, you currently > need to go through a > bit of user account registration (select Just Interested as your > programme). Once done, you press a button to queue for the next available > machine and when it is available it is yours to boot, reboot, halt, and > become root on. You only get the machines for a short time period (free > users get a minimum of 20 minutes on completion of their registration > process). > > The machines are available on http://linuxzoo.net > > The site is more to do with learning system administration, and has a > number of interactive tutorials which can be followed, and which test your > UML machine to see if the question objectives have been achieved. Some > material is still being written. > > I have >60 UML machines, although only 15 are available at this time > to free users. > I would be increasing this for the duration of the summer (while my > students are not making use of the system). I also expect another few > server machines to arrive over the next few months, which should boost my > UMLs to >100. > > You get a UML to yourself. Email is blocked, as is many privileged ports. > http is open, and you can use telnet and ssh. Network traffic is > logged, and CPU usage > is managed to some degree. Basically limitations are minimal, but play > fair. Dont > use it as a parallel processing farm or for recompiling the kernel. The > ratio of UMLs to real machines is between 7:1 and 15:1, depending on the > machine. > > My intention is to offer users a variety of distribution images to try. > I am working on gentoo and core3, but right now the site only has fedora > core2. > > Dont make me cry by breaking it! The site has been running in the > shadows for 9 months, > but perhaps now is a good time to share it a little more widely. It is > reasonably > reliable but it is free and thus the service is not guaranteed. > > The most I have ever had on it was 55 simultaneous students (100 in > the class). In Oct I will have 160 in the class. Anyone got a farm > larger than 100 UMLs? > > Thanks to everyone involved with UMLs who helped me get it running. > Enjoy. > G. > > PS. If you like it I would be grateful if you could spread the URL around a > bit. You can do it yourself on the Wiki: http://uml.harlowhill.com/ -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade
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