Thread: Virtual Machines and LSF scheduling

Originally posted by: mbaker, Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:28 pm

We are investigating the possible use of virtual machines to provide suspend/resume capability to legacy research applications. Does anyone have experience scheduling VM's with LSF? Which VM software do you use? We are looking at VMWare and qemu, however we are having problems finding a way to run VM's in a headless fashion.

Thanks,

Matt Baker
University of Arkansas

Hi,

Platform has a product called VM Orchestrator (VMO) which does that more or less what you want .. basically you can use policies (inherited from LSF/EGO) to manage VMs.

The most stable VMs we have seen and tested in house is Citrix's Xen.

what do you mean 'headless fashion'?

cheers!
laurence