Not to defend Fry's . . .
The mobo was an Abit AB9 for $129. I checked the user manual and made
sure virtualization could be enabled. And that board supports the
CoreDuo processor and gigs of RAM.
George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
623-203-1760
Technomage wrote:
> On Friday 03 November 2006 08:05, George Toft wrote:
>
>>My $0.015 (not quite 2 cents) worth . . .
>>
>>Like the article points out, virtualization is a huge trend in the IT
>>industry. Full virtualization (VMWare, MS Virtual Server) are slow
>>compared to paravirtualization (Xen). Companies are looking to
>>consolidate and virtualize servers, so if Microsoft partners with a
>>Linux company that already has a paravirt product, then they sell more
>>OS licenses.
>
>
> oh yeah. I've been using paravirt here at home for over a year (I am one of
> the beta testers for xensource here).
>
>
>>Red Hat states that with paravirtualization under Xen 3.0.3, near native
>>speeds are achievable. Anyone who has used VMWare knows it is nowhere
>>near native-speed. In my own Xen experiments, it is very responsive and
>>snappy. [Side note - I went to Fry's to price out a mobo/CPU/RAM combo
>>that would support Xen - just $800!!!]
>
>
> I am looking at a motherboard from tyan (the tomcat series) that would using
> my old HT pentium 4 (and it is looking at running me about $235 just for the
> board). getting server-grade equipment isn't cheap, but any can do better
> than fry's (sorry for the dig here, but fry's isn't all that great when it
> comes to computer hardware).
>
>
>>There are two Linux vendors that support Xen - SuSE (AKA Novell) and Red
>>Hat (well, not yet, but they will next year when RHEL5 comes out). The
>>MS/Novell team will perfect running Windows under Xen and take the
>>market by storm. 95% of Fortune 500 companies use Novell products (saw
>>that somewhere). 100% use Microsoft. These two companies are already
>>deep inside corporate America. Red Hat isn't.
>
>
> Xensource has their own OS (based on a linux kernel) and they have a
> commercial product that will support any guest os (windows included).
>
> also, to amend you statement there, even OpenBSD is comming online to support
> xen (there was a recent report that a successful port of the xen kernel was
> made to openBSD, although not many of the xen tools have been ported as yet).
>
>
>
>>The next few years are going to be really interesting.
>
>
> its already interesting. :)
>
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