[PLUG] help for setup of virtual machine

[Aditya Godbole]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:34 PM, mihir tailor<tailor.mihir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi PLUG members !
> One of my friends has recently started classes for teaching C.
> He has a pretty decent rig and now he wants to use that pc
> for setting up a lab for his students to practice C programs on.
> he is on a very tight budget and cannot afford to setup multiple pcs, so
> he know wants to know whether he can use Virtualization on fedora 11
> and setup multiple systems using KVM.
>
> His Configuration is as follows :
> AMD Athlon 64 x2 64 bit Dual Core Processor @ 2.6 GHz
> 2.00 Gb RAM (1.87 Gb usable due to onboard graphics card.)
> 160Gb Sata Hdd + 80 Gb Pata Hdd.

Here is an option:
1. Get hold of some scrapped (old) machines. 16 MB ram would be more
than sufficient.
2. Install Debian Woody, or some old slackware or RH 7.1.
3. Connect them via ethernet to his AMD athlon machine.
4. Access using SSH or telnet. With 2 GB, he should be able to support
quite a few ssh+vim+gcc+gdb connections.

Some more configuration would be necessary if he intends to write
programs that use X.

-aditya