[Lustre-discuss] Virtual machines

Brian J. Murrell brian.murrell at oracle.com
Wed Sep 8 05:09:55 PDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 05:50 -0500, Brian O'Connor wrote:
> Does lustre work in a VM?

Yes, of course, given that a VM provides an entire virtual computer.

> what about in a VM over Infiniband?   

I don't know of any VMs which expose the hosts Infiniband hardware for
the VM to use directly.  Xen might.  libvirt/kvm might.  But those are
just WAGs.

b.

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