From toreason at fastmail.fm Sat Jul 11 08:48:02 2009 From: toreason at fastmail.fm (V S P) Date: Sat Jul 11 08:48:09 2009 Subject: single image OS with multiple freebsd machines Message-ID: <1247300972.7362.1324546425@webmail.messagingengine.com> Hi, new to the list came across of http://www.kerrighed.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Which a linux-based system that virtualizes individual machines into one cohesive OS so 4 machines with 4GB and 2 cpus each look to applications as one machine with 16GB and 8CPUs wanted to know if something similar is possible to do with freebd. This would completely eliminate a 'map-reduce'/hadoop type systems, in my mind thank you in advance -- Vlad P author of C++ ORM http://github.com/vladp/CppOrm/tree/master -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. From toreason at fastmail.fm Sat Jul 11 20:05:06 2009 From: toreason at fastmail.fm (V S P) Date: Sat Jul 11 20:05:13 2009 Subject: single image OS with multiple freebsd machines In-Reply-To: <4A58EEF5.4020502@elischer.org> References: <1247300972.7362.1324546425@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4A58EEF5.4020502@elischer.org> Message-ID: <1247342704.20289.1324595713@webmail.messagingengine.com> hi, I agree, and hoping that something like that is already out there especially given freebsd separation for virtual spaces/cpus for jail support it just the other way around adding resources 'back' into the pool After learning about kerrighed I am thinking that various hadoop/ map reduce systems and clustered database servers (when they are clustered for performance and not fault-tolerance) -- are really incorrect approaches for multi-machine parallelism --instead having it done by OS resources is really the right approach as it it basically tells application developer: " as long as you design your system to run concurrently on a single machine our OS will automatically scale it across more than one machine " this is very powerful -- and I was hoping something like this is also available in the BSD system. On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:58 -0700, "Julian Elischer" wrote: > V S P wrote: > > Hi, > > new to the list > > > > came across of > > http://www.kerrighed.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > > > > Which a linux-based system that virtualizes individual machines > > into one cohesive OS so 4 machines with 4GB and 2 cpus each > > look to applications as one machine with 16GB and 8CPUs > > certainly looks interesting. > I believe it is no more nor less feasible on FreeBSD than Linux. -- Vlad P author of C++ ORM http://github.com/vladp/CppOrm/tree/master -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class From julian at elischer.org Sat Jul 11 20:11:26 2009 From: julian at elischer.org (Julian Elischer) Date: Sat Jul 11 20:11:32 2009 Subject: single image OS with multiple freebsd machines In-Reply-To: <1247300972.7362.1324546425@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1247300972.7362.1324546425@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <4A58EEF5.4020502@elischer.org> V S P wrote: > Hi, > new to the list > > came across of > http://www.kerrighed.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > > Which a linux-based system that virtualizes individual machines > into one cohesive OS so 4 machines with 4GB and 2 cpus each > look to applications as one machine with 16GB and 8CPUs certainly looks interesting. I believe it is no more nor less feasible on FreeBSD than Linux. > > > > wanted to know if something similar is possible to do with freebd. > > This would completely eliminate a 'map-reduce'/hadoop type systems, > in my mind > > > thank you in advance From julian at elischer.org Sat Jul 11 20:16:26 2009 From: julian at elischer.org (Julian Elischer) Date: Sat Jul 11 20:16:32 2009 Subject: single image OS with multiple freebsd machines In-Reply-To: <1247300972.7362.1324546425@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1247300972.7362.1324546425@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <4A58F0A2.4060008@elischer.org> V S P wrote: > Hi, > new to the list > > came across of > http://www.kerrighed.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > > Which a linux-based system that virtualizes individual machines > into one cohesive OS so 4 machines with 4GB and 2 cpus each > look to applications as one machine with 16GB and 8CPUs I think that the DragonFlyBSD folk are looking at eventually doing this sort of thing as standard. At least Matt intimated that this was one of his original hopes for the project. > > > > wanted to know if something similar is possible to do with freebd. > > This would completely eliminate a 'map-reduce'/hadoop type systems, > in my mind > > > thank you in advance From Juergen.Dankoweit at T-Online.de Sun Jul 19 12:03:17 2009 From: Juergen.Dankoweit at T-Online.de (Juergen Dankoweit) Date: Sun Jul 19 12:03:24 2009 Subject: Xorg freezes with Virtualbox Message-ID: <4A630B5D.8040607@T-Online.de> Hello to the list, on my system I have a problem with Virtualbox. I installed WinXP Homedition in a virtual environment and the mouse does not work. When clicking on the Windows-window the whole xorg freezes and only the keys ++ work to switch to the console #1. I use the GTK frontend to VirtualBox because it runs in a Gnome environment. Where should I look to solve the problem with the freeze? Many thanks for the answers. Best regards Juergen PS: Here is what I use: FreeBSD t43.juergendankoweit.net 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #2 virtualbox-2.2.51.r20457_3 vboxgtk-0.4.1 xorg-server-1.6.1,1 xorg-drivers-7.4_2 From Juergen.Dankoweit at t-online.de Sun Jul 19 12:09:14 2009 From: Juergen.Dankoweit at t-online.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?J=FCrgen_Dankoweit?=) Date: Sun Jul 19 12:09:23 2009 Subject: Xorg freezes with Virtualbox Message-ID: <4A6306B6.1080401@FreeBSD-Onkel.de> Hello to the list, on my system I have a problem with Virtualbox. I installed WinXP Homedition in a virtual environment and the mouse does not work. When clicking on the Windows-window the whole xorg freezes and only the keys ++ work to switch to the console #1. I use the GTK frontend to VirtualBox because it runs in a Gnome environment. Where should I look to solve the problem with the freeze? Many thanks for the answers. Best regards Juergen PS: Here is what I use: FreeBSD t43.juergendankoweit.net 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #2 virtualbox-2.2.51.r20457_3 vboxgtk-0.4.1 xorg-server-1.6.1,1 xorg-drivers-7.4_2