On Tuesday 17 April 2007 16:33:31 Jacob Broido wrote: > Hi, > > CPU's: I assume you're refering to VT-x(Intel) and Pacifica(AMD) cpu > extentions. Well, you can find a list of CPU models supporting these > extentions here: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/IntelVT and AMD: Athlon > 64 F* , All current Opterons > > Having said that, using hardware aided vm extentions does not neceserly > boost one's performance (in many cases it worsens it), what it does allow > though, is running unmodified Guest OS's under a hypervisor(i.e windows > under xen). > > As for xen VS vmware(ESX) , there are many mixed benchmarks(vmware > prohibits publishing benchmark results of its products) around the compared > perfomance of these two, so I wont go directly into that. Having said that > Vmware seems to be a more mature and polished product. Keep in mind that > ESX is not a freeware and quite expensive , moreover it must have SAN or > iSCSI as its storage. > > All in all, regarding specs it really depends on the type of load you're > planning to do. But one thing is for sure, you can never have too much RAM > and double importance goes for VM's.
Is it worth using xen/vmware esx for a development workstation? Are the VT extentions are in effect when using the host/guests version of vmware (i.e. not esx). Is it fair to say that intel VT features are supported and more stable in xen and vmware products? 10x. > On 4/17/07, Tzahi Fadida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Specifically regarding available hardware. > > What hardware (CPU - INTEL/AMD) today comes with virtualization features > > and > > is most compatible to vmware/xen/etc...? > > Can someone recommend a good spec for that? > > How is xen compared to vmware (ESX?) performance wise and utilizing > > special > > hardware features? What about graphics, i recall they had problems > > utilizing > > performance in the past for windows, is it solved? > > 10x. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Tzahi. > > -- > > Tzahi Fadida > > Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info > > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at > > http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html > > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
