https://nitingupta.dev/tags/virtualization/ Recent content in Virtualization on Nitin Gupta Hugo en ngupta@nitingupta.dev (Nitin Gupta) ngupta@nitingupta.dev (Nitin Gupta) Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:22:00 -0700 https://nitingupta.dev/post/faster-compilation-with-distcc/ Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:22:00 -0700ngupta@nitingupta.dev (Nitin Gupta) https://nitingupta.dev/post/faster-compilation-with-distcc/ <p>Often, you have more than one system at your disposal but no clear way of distributing your compilation workloads over to all or some of them. They might be running different OSes which makes it look even more difficult. In my case, I have one laptop (2 cores) and a desktop (4 cores) connected with a WiFi network. The laptop runs Linux (Fedora 13 64-bit) while the desktop runs Windows 7 (64-bit). I wanted to somehow offload Linux kernel compilation over to my powerful desktop and keep my laptop cool :)</p> https://nitingupta.dev/post/compressed-ram-disk-for-windows-the-virtual-way/ Sun, 30 May 2010 06:53:00 -0700ngupta@nitingupta.dev (Nitin Gupta) https://nitingupta.dev/post/compressed-ram-disk-for-windows-the-virtual-way/ <p>Recently, I developed Linux kernel driver which creates generic RAM based compressed block devices (called <strong>zram</strong>). Being RAM disks, they do not provide persistent storage but there are many use cases where persistence is not required: /tmp, various caches under /var, swap disks etc. These cases can benefit greatly from high speed RAM disks along with savings which compression brings!</p> <p>However, all this seems to be completely Linux centric. But with virtualization, zram can be used for Windows too! The trick is a expose zram as a ‘raw disk’ to Windows running inside a Virtual Machine (VM). I will be using VirtualBox as example but exposing raw disks should be supported by other Virtualization solutions like VMware, KVM too.</p>