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. 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]
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