From: "Robert Comer" 

> How well do VM an VPC run on your average whitebox P4 or Athlon with <1MB
> of cache?  I'm thinking really lightly loaded application servers with 2G
> RAM, and essentially one app per image.

It depends on the OS you're going to use on the host and guest, and if it's
server types, I'd run Virtual Server R2 instead, it's cheaper and targeted
for server apps.  Lightly loaded a cheapie P4 or Athlon will do just fine
if you have enough RAM to run your images and not cause the host to swap
too much.

> I.e., for sanity, do you absolutely *have* to have a dualie/dual-core for
> this?  Absolutely *have* to have a Xeon/Opteron?  Should have?

Definitely not, but as the usage goes up you're going to want to scale the
hardware up too.

My next machine is probably going to be a dualie, and with either Intel's
VT architecture, or AMD's version of the same. (called Pacifica).  The
Intel 9xx dualies are the cheapest that we can get so far...

--
Bob Comer


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:43f34c51$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Speaking of making sense....
>
> How well do VM an VPC run on your average whitebox P4 or Athlon with <1MB
> of cache?  I'm thinking really lightly loaded application servers with 2G
> RAM, and essentially one app per image.
>
> I.e., for sanity, do you absolutely *have* to have a dualie/dual-core for
> this?  Absolutely *have* to have a Xeon/Opteron?  Should have?

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