Kernel 2.4?

Kernel 2.4?

[Yuzhong Sun]

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I am porting OpenMosix on top of Xen. However, the stable release of
openMosix is based on Linux Kernel 2.4(They are trying to port it to kernel
2.6).

 

So, how can I create Linux Kernel 2.4 (i.e., Fedora 1) guest OS on top of
CentOS 4.3?

 

I wonder why Xen didn't support the lower kernel version such as 2.4 kernel.
There is some open sources based on kernel 2.4.

 

Thanks for your help in advance!

 

 

-Yuzhong

 


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Re: Kernel 2.4?

[Vincent Hanquez]

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:46:19PM +0800, Yuzhong Sun wrote:
> I am porting OpenMosix on top of Xen. However, the stable release of
> openMosix is based on Linux Kernel 2.4(They are trying to port it to kernel
> 2.6).

There's lots more work to port 2.4 kernels to Xen-3, than to finish 2.6
openmosix. Now you could just use Xen-2, which support 2.4 kernels.
Patching 2.4 kernel on Xen2 with openmosix should be trivial.

> I wonder why Xen didn't support the lower kernel version such as 2.4 kernel.
> There is some open sources based on kernel 2.4.

I wouldn't count openmosix-2.4 as a good source here ...

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答复: [Xen-devel] Kernel 2.4?

[Yuzhong Sun]

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In fact, we are trying to build a virtual cluster on a set of VMs on top of
Xen. OpenMosix or Open SSI are available open-source cluster management
tools. Do you know the better guys?

 

Thanks

 

-Yuzhong

 

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发件人: Vincent Hanquez [mailto:tab@snarc.org] 
发送时间: 2006年5月19日 21:59
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主题: Re: [Xen-devel] Kernel 2.4?

 

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:46:19PM +0800, Yuzhong Sun wrote:

> I am porting OpenMosix on top of Xen. However, the stable release of

> openMosix is based on Linux Kernel 2.4(They are trying to port it to
kernel

> 2.6).

 

There's lots more work to port 2.4 kernels to Xen-3, than to finish 2.6

openmosix. Now you could just use Xen-2, which support 2.4 kernels.

Patching 2.4 kernel on Xen2 with openmosix should be trivial.

 

> I wonder why Xen didn't support the lower kernel version such as 2.4
kernel.

> There is some open sources based on kernel 2.4.

 

I wouldn't count openmosix-2.4 as a good source here ...

 

-- 

Vincent Hanquez

 


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Re: 答复: [Xen-devel] Kernel 2.4?

[Ronald G Minnich]

Yuzhong Sun wrote:
> In fact, we are trying to build a virtual cluster on a set of VMs on top 
> of Xen. OpenMosix or Open SSI are available open-source cluster 
> management tools. Do you know the better guys?

sure. You can build virtual bproc clusters. bproc is a much lighter
weight system than opemmosix or openssi. We run 12,000 CPUs of cluster
here at LANL with bproc. It's very nice.

If you are interested I can get you a writeup on how we did this. The
work was done about 18 months ago.

for more info on bproc, see clustermatic.org. The next-gen bproc we are
doing, called xcpu, is even lighter weight than bproc, and runs on any
kernel, though for full capability it is good to have kernels >=2.6.14


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