> additional questions for andre: what was the specs of the machine that > you used for cooperative Linux?
Hi, The specs of the machine is on the other e-mail that i have sent. > was the setup curve steep (for a moderately experienced newbie)? thanks. The installation is easy. It's like a windows installer and click next next next... And then configuring colinux through the file default.config.xml is easy too. The networking part is on the intermediate level and there is a wiki for it: http://www.colinux.org/wiki/index.php/coLinuxNetworking You have two options to configure network: (my preference is the native/bridge network) - NAT network (Network Address Translation) - Native/Bridged network Persistent problems on this part is that the host windows cannot see the guest Linux due to TCP/IP Checksums, But other boxes on the network can see both the host & guest. There is a solution, but it sometimes does not work. I have a work around solution which will work guaranteed, But it's not on the colinux wiki website. Lastly, to add something... There is an article about colinux from IBM Developerworks released just today. This guy is using Linux kernel 2.4.26, with the distro Gentoo. "Build a heterogeneous cluster with coLinux and openMosix" http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-colinux/ An interesting quote: "So how is coLinux's performance when compared with VMWare? We ran a rough benchmark. As a test, we chose the POV-Ray 3.6.1 precompiled binary from Povray's Web site. (POV-Ray is one of the grandfather's of realistic 3D graphics creation software, full of those massive numbers-crunching tasks and perfect for our test.) The binary was executed with the default options found in benchmark.ini (included in the povray package): # povray benchmark.ini. This POV-Ray is run on coLinux for Linux kernel 2.4.26. The root filesystem is using the Gentoo distribution. We tested the same POV-Ray binary on VMWare version 4.5.2 using the same distribution. The following table demonstrated how long our testing machine needed to execute the predefined scene along with the neccesary options (as noted in benchmark.ini file). Table 1. POV-Ray runtime result Platform (where POV-Ray is executed) Time (in minutes:seconds) Native Linux 39:23 coLinux 39:26 VMWare 40:53 Reading the data sheet, you see that coLinux is tightly matching the native OS speed. VMWare, as predicted, is slower than coLinux with a more or less one-minute difference. VMWare can achieve nearly the native speed by translating the virtual machine's (VM) instruction stream on the fly to the host machine, but since VMWare itself runs in user space, this can cause problems. Such as when the VM executes code in kernel mode; then VMWare has to carefully translate the memory mapping and permissions in order to simulate the VM's virtual CPU correctly. " regards, Andre -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
