Re: [arch-general] Virtualization accross hardware border

2016-02-09 Thread Patrick Burroughs (Celti)
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:13:28 +0100 Wolfgang Mader wrote: > [snip] > For my needs, I want to run "usual" software, specifically R, the > statistics language. Utlimately, I want to bind several physical > hosts together to appear as one host on OS level, such that e.g.

Re: [arch-general] Virtualization accross hardware border

2016-02-09 Thread Wolfgang Mader
On 02/09/2016 09:23 AM, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:13:28 +0100 Wolfgang Mader wrote: [snip] For my needs, I want to run "usual" software, specifically R, the statistics language. Utlimately, I want to bind several physical hosts

Re: [arch-general] Virtualization accross hardware border

2016-02-09 Thread Wolfgang Mader
On 02/09/2016 12:30 AM, Damian Nowak wrote: if I understand the offering of Amazons cloud service correctly, there, you can install an OS, say arch, on a virtualized machine and scale CPU, RAM, etc. freely up and down just as you need it. Well, yes and no. You can scale up resources (e.g.

Re: [arch-general] Virtualization accross hardware border

2016-02-09 Thread Christoph Gysin
> For my needs, I want to run "usual" software, specifically R, the statistics > language. Utlimately, I want to bind several physical hosts together to > appear as one host on OS level, such that e.g. htop would show the total > number of cores accross all bound boxes. There are often optimized

Re: [arch-general] Virtualization accross hardware border

2016-02-08 Thread Alexander Terry
You might want to look into docker: https://www.docker.com/ On Mon, Feb 8, 2016, 12:59 AM Wolfgang Mader wrote: > Dear list, > > if I understand the offering of Amazons cloud service correctly, there, > you can install an OS, say arch, on a virtualized machine and

[arch-general] Virtualization accross hardware border

2016-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Dear list, if I understand the offering of Amazons cloud service correctly, there, you can install an OS, say arch, on a virtualized machine and scale CPU, RAM, etc. freely up and down just as you need it. While I can to this using e.g. KVM+qemu on a single machine, I want to be able to bind

Re: [arch-general] Virtualization accross hardware border

2016-02-08 Thread Damian Nowak
> if I understand the offering of Amazons cloud service correctly, there, you > can install an > OS, say arch, on a virtualized machine and scale CPU, RAM, etc. freely up and > down just as > you need it. Well, yes and no. You can scale up resources (e.g. increase RAM) but this requires a