On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 09:01 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > We recently picked up a new SGI Altix 350 (2 bricks, 4 cpus, 4GB) for > "playing around", although it will hopefully become a part of our > corporate development environment. It came installed with SuSE 9 > SLES (which I'm not very fond of) and some Red Hat Enterprise for > Itanium CDs, which I'd like to install in it. How are the RedHat CD's labeled? We have 3 Altix machines running ProPack 3 (which is based on RHEL 3). Apparently yours would be running ProPack 4 since they've decided to shift to SuSE. I'm curious if they provided you with ProPack 3 CD's but pre-installed the PP4 OS on the machine. > I'd like to do some > sort of virtualization, a la Xen, to allocate virtual systems to > various developers, but I'm not finding much that will run on the > Altix 350 in 32-bit mode with SMP, much less ia64. > > Has anyone run Xen on *any* flavor of Linux running on Altix (in > particular, Red Hat/Fedora-based)? Any suggestions or ideas? > > -J. Just glancing at the docs for Xen, it looks pretty x86-specific (especially considering the mention of them working on a "port" to x86-64). There isn't really a "32-bit mode" on Itanium. You can run 32-bit binaries, but the CPU's emulate the 32-bit instructions. We've safely run some code, but it's always preferable to go with a pure 64- bit solution. -Steve -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
