serious virtualization without HW support?
Bill Crawford
billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 13:41:19 UTC 2009
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 13:39:36 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i'm reading the section on CPU virtualization extensions here:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Quick_Start
>
> and it occurs to me to ask whether anyone would want to get
> *seriously* into virtualization without having machines with those
> extensions.
>
> is it safe to say that, by now, most modern systems come with VT or
> AMD-V support? and by "serious" virtualization, i don't mean someone
> downloading and goofing around with it, i mean people who want to set
> up virtual corporate servers or mission-critical stuff.
>
> thoughts?
I think there are quite a few businesses still using Xen and related stuff (like
the "vserver" containers) to run real live applications, although where I work
that was mostly done to consolidate development and testing platforms.
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