Bernard,
If you do decide to grab a 30-day license, FWIW I have some RH9 VM images
available for the folks doing sss-oscar stuffo. I also have instructions,
yadda, yadda in case it helps. It might save you a bit of time loading a
VMheadnode, etc.
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~naughton/sss-oscar/
Have a good weekend,
--tjn
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Thomas Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Bernard Li wrote:
> Hey Jeff:
>
> That makes perfect sense - but the only problem is, we don't have vmware :P
>
> I guess I could d/l the 30-day evaluation and try that out...
>
> BTW, do people generally take snapshots of their Oscar headnode? I
> would imagine it might be wise to do so since there's quite a bit of
> tweaking done to get it up and running (especially with new hardware) so
> what tools do you guys generally use?
>
> Also, anybody tried running Oscar in User Mode Linux? I assume that you
> can create your own 'virtual cluster' using UML and could generate the
> same environment as vmware (and free!).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bernard
>
> Jeff Squyres wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Bernard Li wrote:
> >
> >
> >>What's the best way to test oscar packages? Is there a way to just test
> >>the installation of a package so that it runs the configurator and then
> >>execute the corresponding script? I guess I could set up a test cluster
> >>to try it out. I'm trying to test out the oscar-ganglia package.
> >
> >
> > My preferred method is with a 100% vmware cluster. That is, I have a
> > "head node" image that I load up with RH9 (or whatever), unpack OSCAR,
> > etc. Then I snapshot the image.
> >
> > I also have 2 additional vmware OSCAR nodes that are essentially blank --
> > I just let them be fully overwritten every time I do an install (i.e., I
> > don't intend to keep any information on those nodes from test to test).
> >
> > Then I do an OSCAR install on the head [vmware] node. Once I have
> > completed it (either by premature failure or complete success), I save any
> > changes that I had to make to the package off to a real machine (i.e., scp
> > it off somewhere) and then revert to the vmware snapshot. Then I can
> > start the whole process again, but with a pristine copy of the OS --
> > guaranteed to be untainted by my previous OSCAR test.
> >
> > Does that make sense?
> >
>
>
>
>
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