I'm planning of building a new computer system. Now I have 2 boxes and I want 1.
I'm planning to build a box with 3 motherboards in it with 3 operarting systems:
Linux, BSD, Windows. (in order of importance yes)
But I heard you can buy HDD docking devices, but that still requires to switch OS everytime, that not an option. I want the 3 systems run together on 3 screens. And to make it more complex I want them to talk to eachother internally when I feel the need to.
So anyone suggestions? or build something like this? or have some links/pics for inspiration?
Love to hear it.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/20/2007 06:46PM by jungsonn.
jungsonn, what you're wanting to do is pretty difficult. Then again, I believe you mentioned at some point you're a hardware developer so you could probably figure it out. However, I have a mac g5 and my xp box communicating with one another, copy / paste etc, can't drag a window in between them per se but I can do alot. one keyboard and one mouse too. Not sure how to integrate linux / bsd into that unless you utilize a KVM .. I have a few ideas.
I like the idea of VMware, and yes it need a lot of juice to keep it fast, but.. can you run them al at once in VMware? I never tried it out actually. It would be more cost effective if it can be done like this.
@cyst well, i'm into electronics a lot, not hardware persee. I like the idea of messing with old computer stuff to build something new out of it is really cool. And because I never tried to combine 3 PC's i thought it would be nice. Have one keyboard with a switch on it to change O.S. and drives and such.
When i first bought my house, I had an idea similar to yours. What I was going to do is just buy the components, and then run a beowulf cluster, and then on the head node, I was going to run VMWare to run windows for gaming.. never did that though.. I did install beowulf on a couple of systems at some point and did manage to get them to talk to one another, but didn't know enough about clustering to make anything decent work..
@jungsonn
... can you run them al at once in VMware?
Yes, you can. If you have enough memory, that is.
Like id suggested, 4G of RAM is a good start.
Before web security, I used to do a lot of network security.
A few years ago, I was working on a os fingerprinting tool and I remember running 4 Os-es in the same time (Windows XP, Redhat Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD).
With VMWare you can have you own virtual network, very cool :O)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/21/2007 01:54PM by blad3.
