On Jan 2, 2008 7:20 PM, G Karunakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have been looking to assemble up a PC - primarily to be used for > 1) Graphics, Photo editing, printing , management, Blender etc. > 2) Running multiple distro's in Xen (or other virtualization). > > So whats a recommended hardware -for motherboard, graphics card, > Monitor, photo printer etc which are better compatible.. > > Intel Core 2 Duo or Quad Core / AMD Athlon X2 > - which specific processor is better to do virtualization (running Xen). > the box would run Debian testing/unstable with other distros > configured through Xen.
Some of the later CPU chipsets come with special hardware which do not require paravirtualization, or modification of the guest OS in xen. AMD chipsets has AMD-V (Pacifica), wheras Intel has VT-x (Vanderpool) extensions. You might want to consider those. > > with ATI/nVidia graphics card (I guess as of now only binary > propreitry drivers work well). > ATI is on its way to open-source: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd Eventually it depends on how much money you can put in ;) -- Goldwyn _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
