virtualization mobo - was Re: Novel and Microsoft

[George Toft]

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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