-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 20:04, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:02:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> There's Xen. And VMware. >> >> VMware has been around for years, and is a known, rock-solid >> hypervisor. >> > Actually, I believe that Xen is a virtualizer. Or do they have > different approaches for their workstation and server products?
"Generic" Xen is a paravirtualizer. Xen 3.0.2+ on modern Intel and AMD CPUs allows for hardware virtualization. The technology code names are Vanderpool and Pacifica. >>> Either way, the more cores the better when the issue is >>> throughput like a server rather than computation like a gaming >>> machine. >> And bandwidth. No use having lots of cores if they are starved for >> data. >> > Good point. Not just that, though, but reliable bandwidth. No sense > having lots of bandwidth if it is unreliable. ???? Who makes unreliable server-class hardware anymore? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFFNta9S9HxQb37XmcRAlaGAJdgL+ox9A9LyeNoLQ0aJPIQJ9V3AKCZ7F90 Jxv45Zx7K9BJKDk82isL4g== =rdF0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]