[GRLUG] 322 Linux distributions

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 13:05 -0500, Don Ellis wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 12:32 -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> >> I smell a Guiness entry here.....
> > Not even close.  I've seen demonstrations of hosts running well in
> > excess of 10,000 VMs.
> Back around 2000 (or a little earlier) I saw an article by an IBMer
> who was testing mainframe Linux, and started up 40,000 Linux instances
> during his lunch hour. Much larger numbers have been reported since.
> Of course, that was on what used to be called a "mainframe", and they
> were all the same distro. Other records could be for most number of
> distros on a host and for different class of host.

At which point the records become tedious; how about: the most VMs run
on a single host with an ASUS motherboard assembled by a ginger born
under the winter solstice?

These days what technically constitutes a "mainframe"?  I can buy off
the shelf servers that support hot-swapped RAM & CPUs.


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