Originally Posted by
AMDave
John, you have picked an interesting subject matter to get into.
You will learn a lot and have fun doing it - I hope.
Remember that any failure is merely a stepping stone on the road to success.
Nflight, may (or may not ;-) ) recall witnessing the ridiculous output I achieved about a year or so ago with 99 linux VMs across a mixture of linux and windows hosts after I went our and bought enough RAM to max out all of my mobos at the time.
I finally ran out of RAM and couldn't get the 100th VM to run, but it was very cool to watch them spewing out the work units and maxing out the bandwidth for a while.
FTR I was using KVM on the big linux machines and VBox on the smaller windows hosts.
I cut my VM images down to the absolute minimum after several replication attempts that tried to gulp more disk than was available.
In the end each image was very small on disk and ram.
It was an interesting and learning experience.
The command line control of VMs is very powerful indeed and worthwhile learning.
What I would recommend doing is keeping a diary of an exercise like that.
I do tend to keep notes on learning experiments like that, but some of what I learned then has already been forgotten and my notes were not well enough kept (mostly due to the excitement of getting it to 'fly').
It's hard to learn but quick to forget, I'm afraid.
I still have pencilled in a follow up activity to do something similar with Linux containers (LXC) to learn more about them.
I have come across more articles recently at LXer news which will help so I'm looking forward to my next deep dive, probably around January/February 2014.
unless I can do something before then.
I hope you enjoy the scenery on that road, John.
There's a couple of tight turns, a few bumps but some terrific scenery at the destination ;)
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