<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Bill Davidsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidsen@tmr.com">davidsen@tmr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Bob Cochran wrote:<br>
> I want to build a new computer system that features dual processors, a<br>
> lot of memory, and is able to run Xen virtualization. Install Fedora and<br>
> Xen as the host on such a machine, and then start running a variety of<br>
> other operating systems as virtual machines.<br>
><br>
> What dual processor hardware configurations work well with Xen? For<br>
> example will any Supermicro brand dual processor motherboard be hardware<br>
> compatible with Xen? I am thinking of Supermicro boards with Xeon<br>
> processors. Or is there a better brand of motherboard?<br>
><br>
><br>
</div>With 2-4-6 core CPUs out there, do you really need that level of cost<br>
and complexity? I run an x58 ASUS Sabertooth board with i7-950 CPU and<br>
24GB ram, and it seems up to most of what I even plan to do. With eight<br>
threads I can handle lots of VMs, although I am running most with KVM<br>
rather than xen. Newer boards will go to six (hyperthreaded) cores, but<br>
I believe only support four sticks of mempry.<br></blockquote><div>Anyone have experience using Shuttle XPC or similar Mini ITX? I wanna have powerful machine and would be nice if it's quite.<br>Regards,<br><br><br><br>
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