Re: [Xen-users] para- and full-virtualization on same system?

[Kent Watsen <kent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Based on a few of the follow-ups, I wanted to add some detail:

• all the machines could be headless (only command-line access is needed)
• we may need real machines for Windows and MacOS if their displays can't be turned off
  
• the software we are developing exposes a SOAP-based interface that is tested via scripts
• each built/test-machine builds and tests the code many times a day (we are doing continuous builds)
• in addition to the servers, developers have desktops machines (that are samba/nfs mounted) for their graphical needs
• developers will SSH into to a build/test machine if their component is failing on that OS
  

Thanks,
Kent


Kent Watsen wrote:

Can I consolidate all my servers to one machine - here are my current machines:

1. OpenBSD (used for external services: dns, http, smtp)
2. OpenBSD (used for internal services: dns, http, smtp, imap, ldap, smb, nfs, svn, bugzilla)
3. OpenSBD (used for upgrading either of the above servers without any downtime)
   
4. OpenBSD (used as a build/test machine)
5. FreeBSD (used as a build/test machine)
6. NetBSD (used as a build/test machine)
7. RedHat (used as a build/test machine)
8. CentOS (used as a build/test machine)
9. SuSE (used as a build/test machine)
10. Solaris (used as a build/test machine)
11. Windows (used as a build/test machine)
12. MacOS X (used as a build/test machine)
    

Notes:

• The OpenBSD-based servers are RAID-ed
• There are actually more machines as I run multiple releases of each build/test OS...

If it can't be done on one machine, than would either of these 2-machine solutions work:

1. Partition machines by server vs. build/test
• one machine has:  1-3 (all para-virtualized)
  
• other machine has:  4-12 (5/9 para-virtualized)
2. Partition machines by para- vs. full-virtualization
• one machine has: 1-4 and 10-12 (all full-virtualized) [would GSX be better?]
  
• other machine has: 5-9 (all para-virtualized)
  

What would you do?

Thanks!
Kent

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