[Lustre-discuss] Lustre playground in VirtualBox?

Brian J. Murrell Brian.Murrell at Sun.COM
Mon Aug 10 07:19:03 PDT 2009


On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 15:39 +0200, Wolfgang Stief wrote:
> Hi out there!
> 
> Before I start installing and fiddling around: Are there any reasons
> AGAINST setting up a Lustre playground in a VirtualBox environment? I
> just want to play around w/ recovery and debugging situations and
> upgrades. No performance required at all.

That should be fine.  Good that you recognize that the performance will
be quite bad though.  Make sure that you provision the hardware that the
virtual machines will run on sufficiently.

Other than that, there should be no issues.

b.

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