Virtualization on Debian

[Dave Cramer]

Meng,

What I did learn here is that you need relatively recent processors  
with hardware virtualization built in

KVM won't work on processors without it whereas Xen will

I'll be taking my server live this week and for a very short period  
of time could allow you access to one of the guests.

Dave
On 12-Feb-07, at 10:08 AM, Meng Cheah wrote:

> Ian Petersen wrote:
>
>> Hi Meng,
>>
>> I don't have much personal experience with virtualization, and the
>> experience I have is with VMWare ESX Server hosting a bunch of  
>> Windows
>> guests, so I don't know how interested you'll be, but I thought I'd
>> chime in anyway.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Ian
>>
> Ian
>
> Many thanks for the detailed response.
> I was following the other virtualization thread with interest.
>
> I read of some companies implementing virtualization for production  
> and wondered if anyone on the list has experience with it at work,  
> especially with regard to Debian.
> I have some reading and investigation to do with Xen, KVM and OpenVZ.
> I will also look into the hardware requirements.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Meng Cheah
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