The display manager is gdm since this has a better XDMCP implementation than the alternatives, however in practice graphical login is most often handled by VNC. The host operating system is Debian "Squeeze", the host normally runs headless and may be accessed by SSH, X using XDMCP, or VNC. ![]() ![]() Guest systems are on the 192.168.22.x subnet and are named pye-dev-07a (192.168.22.16), pye-dev-07b (192.168.22.17) and so on, they have their own gateway 192.168.22.1 which is known to the site router and firewalls. The host IP address is 192.168.1.22 and the system is named pye-dev-07, the default gateway and name server are on 192.168.1.1. It has two internal drive cages, the first is connected to a RAID controller and is used for the host operating system and tools, the second is connected to a SCSI controller and contains 6x discs each of which is used for a different guest system. In the current case, the host is a Compaq rack-mount server running at around 3GHz with several Gb RAM be warned that performance will drop off drastically with a lower specification system.
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