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I would like to install vmvm on linux for practice

My hdd is only 1 & its a intel core i5 processor which i believe is 64 bit..

Has anyone have experience of installing it on desktop ? Or any other advice to learn it ?

Thanks

You'd want as many disks as possible if you want to experiment with volume management. I would suggest you setup a VM environment with several virtual disks.

An i5 should give you enough juice to power several VMs

For VxVM you'll need "Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability for Linux" package which is available for free on Symantec web page (last time I checked it was a trial package, so not really "free").

I agree with VerdePollo you should have plenty of power; however, i would suggest getting familiar with the levels of virtualization support available in your specific processor (different generations of the i5 also have differences). Look up your specific processor. Also, since you are interested in doing i/o (virtual disks) it might help if you look up Intel Vt-d and see if that is a supported extension in your current cpu. See...Hardware-assisted Virtualization Technology

by adding several disks to a virtual machine won't help you to achieve a functional cluster because disks cannot be deported to the other node . Solution is install openfiler OS which emulates a storage array as a VM and from there start allocating disks to targets , it has a really nice web interface to make your life easier . If you are interested how to do it please let me know i can help with that. Have a good day.