Why not use Xen ( http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/Xen )?
If you just plan to use VMWare workstation, then chances are you are going to be wasting a bunch of cycles. Would be better to just run multiple instances of Geronimo.
I've had really bad luck with VMWare in the past so I am a bit jaded to using it. Previously we had a big box running ESX, and a few virtual machines on it. We setup our main build/ci server as one of them... and it was so slow.... the vm had 100% utilization, but the host was only at like 20%.
--jason On Jul 28, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Aaron Mulder wrote:
I'm interested in setting up VMware Server on my GBuild boxes, since my understanding is that the TCK is pretty single-threaded and we ought to get better utilization out of the (dual-CPU) machines if we ran the host plus one VM or just two VMs (and forget about the host) on each box. It sounds like memory might be the constraining feature -- my boxes have 1.5, 2, and 4 GB respectively and I wonder whether splitting the smaller ones in half would leave enough RAM for the TCK to run. Would 512 or 768 be enough? The other question is IPs. I only have 3 IPs. Is there any way for me to put all the boxes/VMs behind a NAT and have them share 1 IP with various port forwards, or do they really need to each have a public IP? Thanks, Aaron