[geeks] server wanted

[Mark Benson]

On 23 Jul 2011, at 17:03, Michael-John Turner wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:12:44PM +0100, Mark Benson wrote:
>> I'm guessing HP Microservers don't have the minerals for doing
virtualisation
>> in hardware? I don't know the AND side but I'm guessing you mean something
>> like Intel VT-x ? Most Core2 stuff does VT-x afaik.
>
> Actually, the Athlon II Neo CPU in the Microserver does support hardware
> virtualisation. I'm using KVM on mine to run several Linux VMs and a
> Windows 2008R2 Core VM. None heavily used, but performance (with 8GiB RAM)
> is fine.

I know, I posted to that effect a couple of days ago :)

Debating wether to dump the current Ubuntu config on my Microserver and
install Xen on it. I've never messed about with true Hardware driven
virtualisation before.

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