From: Benjamin Anderson (hawklan@iastate.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 15 2007 - 20:48:39 EDT
We have had great performance out of Xen. In the Xen Worlds project
we have had a (now 3-year-old) Dell Dimension desktop with 2GB of RAM
serving 30 virtual machines. The virtual machines weren't doing that
much work, or generating much network traffic, but you should still
manage a decent number of VMs under a moderate load.
A paper on Xen Worlds, that includes some performance results from
running expect scripts can be found at: http://home.eng.iastate.edu/
~hawklan/xenWorldsAsee.pdf
- Ben
On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:28 PM, M.B.Jr. wrote:
> On 8/11/07, Shaon Diwakar <shaon.diwakar@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> This issue has been discussed on the list a few times, so you
>> might find some great advice from looking in the archives as well...
>>
>> I would recommend having a base desktop build with what ever OS
>> you are comfortable (GNU/Linux, Windows or even MacOSX) and using
>> VMWare Server or Parallels images.
>
> In case one decide himself for a virtual lab, he must mind his
> machine's hardware. VMware's products (and even Xen) are not kid's
> play.
>
> Best
>
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