Rocks Cluster Distribution 5.0 is released
Xen Support
You can use the Xen Roll to create ?VM Containers?: physical machines that are used to hold Xen-based virtual machines. The Rocks Command Line was expanded to help build and maintain VMs (e.g., ?rocks create host vm compute-0-0-0″ is used to install a VM).
Fully-Programmable Partitioning
The partitioning of client nodes (e.g., compute nodes and tile nodes) has been retooled. You can supply Red Hat partitioning directives to any node by writing a program in the ?pre? section which populates the file ?/tmp/user_partitioning_info?. The program can be as simple as small bash script that echos Red Hat partitioning directives or as complex as a python program that outputs partitioning info based on: the node?s name, the node?s membership, the number of disks in the node or the type of disks in the node. See the Base Roll documentation for details.
For more information, visit
http://www.roseindia.net/linux-distribution/linuxrelease/1143