Actually Rob, I do almost all my virtualization on my Macbook which does support the Intel VT extensions. Also, my client work laptop which I use much more than my company laptop supports the Intel VT extensions.
I admit I have been doing virtualization much more for personal reasons rather than business reasons. This means that I am working on development environments rather than production and don't have the need for moving a running Virtual Machine from one piece of hardware to another. So take it all with a grain of salt. MAIH.. Andy Rob Huffstedtler wrote: > I would assume you are talking about the processor extensions like > Intel VT (for IA32) and VT-i (for IA64) or AMD-V (I think that's their > name for the concept). As I'm sure you know since you are probably > using the same laptop as I am, the Dell D830s don't come with a > processor that supports it. If I were doing this for real hosting in > a data center (as opposed to just having multiple dev environments to > carry around), I'd definitely look for host hardware that supported > hardware assisted virtualization. > > That adds another interesting layer to the comparison of options - > it's possible that one hypervisor might perform better than another > without hardware assistance, but the results might reverse with the > hardware assistance. > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Andrew Farnsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > Performance of virtual machines can be fairly significantly > improved if > you have hardware that specifically supports it and virtualization > software (a hypervisor) that does as well. I read a fairly recent > article on this about a week ago but cannot find it now. I'll post it > when I find it again. > > Andy > > > > Rob Huffstedtler wrote: > > Do you have any performance stats on virtual box? I use it for > > running Fedora hosted on my Windows laptop, and (subjectively) the > > performance seems pretty bad compared to VirtualPC (which isn't > known > > for being lightning fast). Based on that experience, I would be > > skeptical of using it for server virtualization. That said, my > > skepticism could easily be overcome by data. > > > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> > wrote: > > > > I like VirtualBox. > > > > www.virtualbox.org <http://www.virtualbox.org/> > <http://www.virtualbox.org/> > > > > They have a rather good enterprise solution as well. > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Chris McQuistion > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> > wrote: > > > > I've used VMWare, in the past, and I currently use Virtual > > Iron, because it has fairly simple administration and is far > > cheaper than VMWare, if you want the bells and whistles. > > > > The big reasons to use VMWare or Virtual Iron (in my > opinion) > > is the nice gui administration tools and their ability > to run > > virtualized Windows guests very well, which has not worked > > well for me, with Xen based virtualization under Red Hat > or SuSE. > > > > Chris > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:24 PM, andrew mcelroy > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > I am not trying to start a flame war or a rant, but I am > > trying to get a feel for what Open Source virtualization > > solutions are actually used. > > > > Currently I have a few servers virtualized inside Xen. > > However, I keep hearing that KVM is "the way to > go"TM for > > hosting websites if you must stick to something open > source. > > > > The purpose of these virtualized servers are to > serve out > > either wordpress mu sites or ruby on rails sites. > > > > In the arena of hosting I have ran across OpenVZ, > KVM and Xen. > > > > I was wondering what everyone is using and why. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
