Thursday, September 18, 2008

VirtualBox Sun Cluster

My current project is to build a working Sun Cluster on my laptop using VirtualBox.

Basic setup:

Hardware:
  • Dell Inspiron 1525 w/ 2GB of RAM
Host:
  • Ubuntu 8.04
  • JWM GUI (instead of Gnome, to conserve memory)
  • VirtualBox 2.02
  • Enterprise iSCSI target
Guests:
  • Solaris 10 5/08 x86
  • Sun Cluster 3.2 (w/ secret, unsupported 32-bit binaries)

I have found the blog and forum postings of other people very helpful:

Configuring the network:

Setting up iSCSI and Sun Cluster in VirtualBox:

Stay tuned for further details.

1 comment:

Theodore Omtzigt said...

Any progress on this? I am trying to do something similar. On my laptop, four Ubuntu instances running an MPI program. Searching the internet to find folks that are/have attempted the same.